Phenotypic instability of Arabidopsis alleles affecting a disease Resistancegene cluster

BMC Plant Biology

Table 3 Phenotypes of F2 progeny from F1 hybrids carrying different alleles in RPP5 locus.

Crosses	F1 phenotype	F2 phenotypes			Total number of F2 plants
		Wild-type	Intermediate	Dwarf
snc1 × bal	Dwarf	0	0	244	244
bal × snc	Dwarf	0	0	218	218
Cpr1 × snc1 #1	Dwarf	20	0	212^a	232
Cpr1 × snc1 #2	Dwarf	22	0	211^b	234
snc1 × cpr1	Dwarf	22	0	215^c	215
bal × cpr1	Dwarf	13	14	241^d	268

^a This number includes 18 plants with severe dwarfism in which cotyledons were not covered by later developing very small true leaves
^b This number includes 13 plants with severe dwarfism. Two plants with severe dwarfism in this family are shown in Additional File 3.
^c This number includes 17 plants with severe dwarfism.
^d This number includes 24 plants with severe dwarfism.

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