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Barley sex6 mutants lack starch synthase IIa activity and contain a starch with novel properties.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Apr 2003
Morell Matthew K, Kosar-Hashemi Behjat, Cmiel Mark, Samuel Michael S, Chandler Peter, Rahman Sadequr, Buleon Alain, Batey Ian L, Li Zhongyi
Abstract excerpt
Analysis of barley shrunken grain mutants has identified lines with a novel high amylose starch phenotype. The causal mutation is located at the sex6 locus on chromosome 7H, suggesting the starch synthase IIa (ssIIa) gene as a candidate gene altered by the mutation. Consistent with this hypothesis, no evidence of SSIIa protein expression in either the starch granule or soluble fractions of the endosperm was...
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