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Molecular characterization of five novel Wx-A1 alleles in common wheat including one silent allele by transposon insertion.
Plant science : an international journal of experimental plant biology - 1 Apr 2021
Alvarez Juan B, Castellano Laura, Huertas-García Ana B, Guzmán Carlos
Abstract excerpt
Wheat starch is composed of two glucose polymers, amylose and amylopectin. Although several starch synthases are responsible for its synthesis, only the waxy protein is associated with the amylose synthesis. The waxy protein composition of 45 Spanish common wheat landraces from Andalusia (southern Spain) was evaluated. Within these materials, five novel alleles for the Wx-A1 gene were detected. Four of them...
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