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Structures of starches from rice mutants deficient in the starch synthase isozyme SSI or SSIIIa.
Biomacromolecules - 9 May 2011
Hanashiro Isao, Higuchi Toshiyuki, Aihara Satomi, Nakamura Yasunori, Fujita Naoko
Abstract excerpt
Amylose and amylopectin of rice mutants deficient in a starch synthase (SS) isozyme in the endosperm, either SSI (ΔSSI) or SSIIIa (ΔSSIIIa), were structurally altered from those of their parent (cv. Nipponbare, Np). The amylose content was higher in the mutants (Np, 15.5%; ΔSSI, 18.2%; ΔSSIIIa, 23.6%), and the molar ratio of branched amylose and its side chains was increased. The chain-length distribution of the...
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