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Characterization of shrunken endosperm mutants in barley.
Gene - 10 Apr 2014
Ma Jian, Jiang Qian-Tao, Wei Long, Wang Ji-Rui, Chen Guo-Yue, Liu Ya-Xi, Li Wei, Wei Yu-Ming, Liu Chunji, Zheng You-Liang
Abstract excerpt
Despite numerous studies on shrunken endosperm mutants caused by either maternal tissues (seg) or kernel per se (sex) in barley, the molecular mechanism for all of the eight seg mutants (seg1-seg8) and some sex mutants is yet to be uncovered. In this study, we determined the amylose content, characterized granule-binding proteins, analyzed the expression of key genes involved in starch synthesis, and examined...
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