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The maize high-lysine mutant opaque7 is defective in an acyl-CoA synthetase-like protein.
Genetics - 1 Dec 2011
Miclaus Mihai, Wu Yongrui, Xu Jian-Hong, Dooner Hugo K, Messing Joachim
Abstract excerpt
Maize (Zea mays) has a large class of seed mutants with opaque or nonvitreous endosperms that could improve the nutritional quality of our food supply. The phenotype of some of them appears to be linked to the improper formation of protein bodies (PBs) where zein storage proteins are deposited. Although a number of genes affecting endosperm vitreousness have been isolated, it has been difficult to clone opaque7...
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