Abstract

Canavanine kills Chlamydomonas reinhardi because it is incorporated into protein. This has made it possible to develop a convenient method for isolating mutants which are conditionally defective in protein synthesis. Sixty percent of all mutants isolated by this method prove to have reversible defects in protein synthesis. These mutants have a variety of phenotypes.

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