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Identification of SNPs in the waxy gene among glutinous rice cultivars and their evolutionary significance during the domestication process of rice.
TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik - 1 May 2004
Yamanaka Shinsuke, Nakamura Ikuo, Watanabe Kazuo N, Sato Yo-Ichiro
Abstract excerpt
Common non-waxy ( Wx) rice cultivars contain two different alleles at the waxy locus, designated Wx(a) and Wx(b), which encode different levels of granule-bound starch synthases and are hence involved in the control of endosperm amylose content. The Wx(a) allele was predominant in non-waxy indica cultivars, whereas the Wx(b) allele was common to the non-waxy japonica variety. Recently, some of the molecular...
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