Article
Genetic, hormonal, and physiological analysis of late maturity α-amylase in wheat.
Plant physiology - 1 Mar 2013
Barrero Jose M, Mrva Kolumbina, Talbot Mark J, White Rosemary G, Taylor Jennifer, Gubler Frank, Mares Daryl J
Abstract excerpt
Late maturity α-amylase (LMA) is a genetic defect that is commonly found in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) cultivars and can result in commercially unacceptably high levels of α-amylase in harvest-ripe grain in the absence of rain or preharvest sprouting. This defect represents a serious problem for wheat farmers, and apart from the circumstantial evidence that gibberellins are somehow involved in the expression...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
