maize mutant phenotypes

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pigmy Top leaves small, stiff and pointed with small pale green streaks; yellow kernel with mutant wrinkled surface.

pigmy A small pgy*-N21B, M2 mutant plant showing top leaves that are small, stiff and pointed with tiny pale green streaks and with slender stalk. Rest of plant is normal; grown from yellow kernel with mutant wrinkled surface.

Pigmy A heterozygous Pgy*-N2558/+ mutant plant showing reduced stature and slender erect leaves. Proportional size reduction of plant parts.

Pigmy Homozygous Pgy*-N2558 mutant plant showing compressed internodes and narrow thread-like erect leaves, especially upper leaves and functional single spike tassel.