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Identification of Mutator insertional mutants of starch-branching enzyme 1 (sbe1) in Zea mays L.
Plant molecular biology - 1 Feb 2002
Blauth Susan L, Kim Kyung-Nam, Klucinec Jeffery, Shannon Jack C, Thompson Donald, Guiltinan Mark
Abstract excerpt
Starch-branching enzymes (SBE) alter starch structure by breaking an alpha-1,4 linkage and attaching the reducing end of the new chain to a glucan chain by an alpha 1,6 bond. In maize, three isoforms of SBE have been identified. In order to examine the function of the SBEI isoform, a reverse-genetics PCR-based screen was used to identify a mutant line segregating for a Mutator transposon within Sbe1. Compared to...
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