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Allelic variants of the amylose extender mutation of maize demonstrate phenotypic variation in starch structure resulting from modified protein-protein interactions.
Journal of experimental botany - 1 Feb 2012
Liu Fushan, Ahmed Zaheer, Lee Elizabeth A, Donner Elizabeth, Liu Qiang, Ahmed Regina, Morell Matthew K, Emes Michael J, Tetlow Ian J
Abstract excerpt
Amylose extender (ae(-)) starches characteristically have modified starch granule morphology resulting from amylopectin with reduced branch frequency and longer glucan chains in clusters, caused by the loss of activity of the major starch branching enzyme (SBE), which in maize endosperm is SBEIIb. A recent study with ae(-) maize lacking the SBEIIb protein (termed ae1.1 herein) showed that novel protein-protein...
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