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Regulation of maize lysine metabolism and endosperm protein synthesis by opaque and floury mutations.
European journal of biochemistry - 1 Dec 2003
Azevedo Ricardo A, Damerval Catherine, Landry Jacques, Lea Peter J, Bellato Cláudia M, Meinhardt Lyndel W, Le Guilloux Martine, Delhaye Sonia, Toro Alejandro A, Gaziola Salete A, Berdejo Bertha D A
Abstract excerpt
The capacity of two maize opaque endosperm mutants (o1 and o2) and two floury (fl1 and fl2) to accumulate lysine in the seed in relation to their wild type counterparts Oh43+ was examined. The highest total lysine content was 3.78% in the o2 mutant and the lowest 1.87% in fl1, as compared with the wild type (1.49%). For soluble lysine, o2 exhibited over a 700% increase, whilst for fl3 a 28% decrease was...
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