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Diverse origins of waxy foxtail millet crops in East and Southeast Asia mediated by multiple transposable element insertions.
Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG - 1 Sept 2005
Kawase Makoto, Fukunaga Kenji, Kato Kenji
Abstract excerpt
The naturally occurring waxy and low-amylose variants of foxtail millet and other cereals, like rice and barley, originated in East and Southeast Asia under human selection for sticky foods. Mutations in the GBSS1 gene for granule-bound starch synthase 1 are known to be associated with these traits. We have analyzed the gene in foxtail millet, and found that, in this species, these traits were originated by...
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