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Chlorella starch branching enzyme II (BEII) can complement the function of BEIIb in rice endosperm.
Plant & cell physiology - 1 Jun 2009
Sawada Takayuki, Francisco Perigio B, Aihara Satomi, Utsumi Yoshinori, Yoshida Mayumi, Oyama Yasunori, Tsuzuki Mikio, Satoh Hikaru, Nakamura Yasunori
Abstract excerpt
In monocots, starch branching enzyme II (BEII) was functionally differentiated into BEIIa and BEIIb after separation from the dicots, and in cereals BEIIb plays a distinct role in amylopectin biosynthesis in the endosperm. The present study was conducted to examine to what extent a green algal BEII has an overlapping function with BEIIb in starch biosynthesis by introducing the Chlorella BEII gene into an...
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