CC-1847 Ar207 (psbA F255Y) mt+

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From Ruth Galloway, Goodenough lab, Washington University, June 1984

Phenotype: herbicide resistant (atrazine)

This is a chloroplast mutant resistant to atrazine, but not cross-resistant to bromacil. The mutation was isolated by Galloway and Mets in strain 2137 (see CC-3269). The atrazine resistance results from a Phe to Tyr change at amino acid residue 255 in the D1 protein.


Galloway RE, Mets LJ (1984) Atrazine, bromacil, and diuron resistance in chlamydomonas: a single non-mendelian genetic locus controls the structure of the thylakoid binding site. Plant Physiol 74:469-474

Erickson JM, Rahire M, Rochaix JD, Mets L (1985) Herbicide resistance and cross-resistance: changes at three distinct sites in the herbicide-binding protein. Science 228:204-207

Govindjee, Eggenberg P, Pfister K, Strasser RJ (1992) Chlorophyll a fluorescence decay in herbicide-resistant D1 mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and the formate effect. Biochim Biophys Acta 1101:353-358


  • Locus:
  • psbA
  • Chromosome:
  • chloroplast