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Compositional and transcriptional analyses of reduced zein kernels derived from the opaque2 mutation and RNAi suppression.
Plant molecular biology - 1 Jul 2010
Frizzi Alessandra, Caldo Rico A, Morrell James A, Wang Meng, Lutfiyya Linda L, Brown Wayne E, Malvar Thomas M, Huang Shihshieh
Abstract excerpt
Corn protein is largely made up of a group of nutritionally limited storage proteins known as zein. The reduction of zein can be achieved by a transcriptional mutation, opaque2 (o2), or a transgene targeting zein through RNA interference (RNAi). Zein reduction results in an increase of more nutritionally balanced non-zein proteins, and therefore enhance the overall quality of corn protein. In this study, the...
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