FGSC #1174

Mutant Type

Genus: N

reporting_genes: Not available; gul-3; pe fl; pt cot-1

species: Neurospora crassa

allele: 845;Y8743m L;NS1(t) C102(t)

stock: BA 8-45

glasgow:

mutagen:

Depositor: HFT

Link Group: IVR;IIR IIR;IVR IVR

MT: a

Species No: 10

gene_back:

oppmt: 0

trans:

ref1: Neurospora NL #5 (Second Neurospora Conference) p14-16

ref2:

site:

country:

ksudc_link: https://digital.lib.k-state.edu/item/neurospora-crassa/fgsc-1174

ksudc_link_html: https://digital.lib.k-state.edu/item/neurospora-crassa/fgsc-1174 ↗

Genes

Locus	Cultural Requirements	Link Group	Type
cot-1	IVR. Between pan-1 (2%) and his-4 (1 to 6%) (692, 812, 816). Extremely colonial at 34°C, but completely normal growth, morphology, and fertility at 25°C and below. Linear growth is maximum at 24°C (374). Becomes colonial at 32°C; colonies from ascospores or conidia are viable and continue to grow slowly with dense branching, but do not conidiate. They quickly resume normal growth when shifted to a permissive temperature (692, 1068). Recessive in duplications (808); apparent dominance in heterokaryons (374) may have resulted from a shift in nuclear ratios. Used in studies of septation and branching (202), growth-inhibiting mucopolysaccharide (878, 879), and sulfate transport (641). Cell wall analysis (374). Growth is stimulated by lysine or arginine (0.1 mM) on glucose media at high temperatures (615). Because of high viability and tightly restricted growth at restrictive temperatures and normality at 25°C, cot-1 mutants have valuable technical applications. For example, crosses homozygous for cot-1 have been used in combination with sorbose for experiments with rec genes, where high-density ascospore platings are required for precise quantitative analysis of intralocus recombination (e.g., references 165, 997, and 1070). In another application, when shifted up after initial growth at the permissive low temperature, cot-1hyphae assume a "bottle brush" appearance with small side branches (692). This has been used to select uvs mutants by subsurface survival on UV-irradiated plates containing p-aminobenzoic acid (938; D.E.A. Catcheside, personal communication). cot-1 conidia or ascospores from cot-1 x cot-1crosses are used for replication in a protocol involving transfer by filter paper (615). For suppressors of cot-1, see gul.	IVR	B
pt	IVR. Right of T(S1229) and pdx-1 (2%). Left of col-4(2%) (40, 55, 808). (201) Original S4342 strain contained linked but separable insertional translocation T(S4342) (808), the presence of which should not change conclusions regarding gene order given in reference 40. Requires phenylalanine plus tyrosine (201). Lacks chorismate mutase (40, 316) (Fig. 11). Evidently the structural gene; strains carrying allele NS1 have thermolabile chorismate mutase (D.E.A. Catcheside, personal communication). NS1 strains are temperature sensitive, growing on minimal medium at 25 C, where they are readily scorable by blue fluorescence under long-wave UV and by browning of medium of aging cultures (1035). Inhibited by complex complete medium.	IVR	B
pe	IIR. Between nuc-2 (4%) and arg-12 (1 to 5%) (593, 816). (613) Peach-colored conidia and short hyphae formed, more uniformly than by the wild type, as a lawn close to surface of agar. Distinctive morphology (46, 613). Added arginine increases macroconidiation and tends to obscure scoring of peat 25 C, but not at 39°C. pe single mutants produce both macro- and microconidia. pe fl double mutants produce abundant grey microconidia and no macroconidia (46, 700) (see fl). See col-1, col-4, and references 415 and 416 for interactions with other genes. Called m (microconidial) or pem in some contexts.	IIR	B
fl	IIR. Between ace-1 (5 to 11%) and trp-3 (3%) (816, PB). (613)No macroconidia (609). Highly fertile (612). Used routinely as the female parent in tests for chromosome rearrangements and for mating type (e.g., reference 801). The flsingle mutant produces few microconidia when dry; when wetted, sufficient microconidia are produced to have been used in early irradiation and mutation studies (614, 915); large numbers can be obtained under certain conditions; see reference 893. pe fl (46, 700) and fl;dn (806) double mutants produce abundant microconidia; the latter combination is highly fertile when homozygous. Photograph of microconidial formation (774); see also reference 893. Nuclear numbers in microconidia (46, 64, 478). Wall analysis (207). Immunoelectrophoretic pattern (784). Paradoxical high alcoholic glycolysis on nitrate medium (80). Deficiency of isocitrate lyase on acetate medium; see citations in reference 1088. When fl A and fl a strains are inoculated separately on crossing medium in plates, a double line of perithecia forms where they meet, similar to that accompanying barrage in Podospora (410, 414). fl ascospores from certain fl x fl+ crosses often germinate spontaneously (1127; N. B. Raju, personal communication). Allele C-1835 was called acon (717, 812).	IIR	B
gul-3	IVR. Linked to cot-1 (10%) and pyr-2 (7%) (1068).Modifier of the colony size of the mutant cot-1at restrictive temperatures. Female sterile. gul- ascospores are black but inviable. Occasional gul- progeny arise from gul+/gul- pseudowild disomic ascospores. Unable to make heterokaryons (1068).	IVR	B