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The QQS orphan gene of Arabidopsis modulates carbon and nitrogen allocation in soybean.
Plant biotechnology journal - 1 Feb 2015
Li Ling, Wurtele Eve Syrkin
Abstract excerpt
The genome of each species contains as high as 8% of genes that are uniquely present in that species. Little is known about the functional significance of these so-called species specific or orphan genes. The Arabidopsis thaliana gene Qua-Quine Starch (QQS) is species specific. Here, we show that altering QQS expression in Arabidopsis affects carbon partitioning to both starch and protein. We hypothesized QQS may...
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