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Determining the role of Tie-dyed1 in starch metabolism: epistasis analysis with a maize ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase mutant lacking leaf starch.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Slewinski Thomas L, Ma Yi, Baker R Frank, Huang Mingshu, Meeley Robert, Braun David M
Abstract excerpt
In regions of their leaves, tdy1-R mutants hyperaccumulate starch. We propose 2 alternative hypotheses to account for the data, that Tdy1 functions in starch catabolism or that Tdy1 promotes sucrose export from leaves. To determine whether Tdy1 might function in starch breakdown, we exposed plants to extended darkness. We found that the tdy1-R mutant leaves retain large amounts of starch on prolonged dark...
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