“…From the crosses between the 6 high lysine lines, the presence of five different genes leading to shrivelled seeds are indicated, the genes in mutants 29 and 86 being allelic. In addition, the results show that the five genes are unlinked, with the possible exception of the two in Hiproly and two in mutant 56, where the equal number of smooth and shrivelled F,-seeds indicate a recombination value of approximately 25 %.The close relationship, observed in the present investigation, between grain filling and DBCP,,.,, the results of DOLL (1975), ORAM et al (1975 and the discovery of a high lysine mutant associated with the shrunken endosperm condition caused by the gene seg I (ESLICK and HOCKETT 1975) seem to justify the assumption that the two characters are at least in part governed by the same genes. A similar relationship is also present in the high lysine mutant Opaque-2 in maize (BALINT et a].…”