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Allelic variation in shrunken2 gene affecting kernel sweetness in exotic-and indigenous-maize inbreds.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2022
Chhabra Rashmi, Muthusamy Vignesh, Baveja Aanchal, Katral Ashvinkumar, Mehta Brijesh, Zunjare Rajkumar U, Hossain Firoz
Abstract excerpt
Sweet corn has become a popular food worldwide. It possesses six-times more sugar than field corn due to the presence of recessive shrunken2 (sh2) gene. Despite availability of diverse sweet corn germplasm, comprehensive characterization of sh2 has not been undertaken so far. Here, entire Sh2 gene (7320 bp) among five field corn-(Sh2Sh2) and six sweet corn-(sh2sh2) inbreds was sequenced. A total of 686 SNPs and...
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