Article
Production of waxy (amylose-free) wheats.
Molecular & general genetics : MGG - 21 Aug 1995
Nakamura T, Yamamori M, Hirano H, Hidaka S, Nagamine T
Abstract excerpt
The Waxy (Wx) protein has been identified as granule-bound starch synthase (GBSS; EC 24.1.21), which is involved in amylose synthesis in plants. Although common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) has three Wx proteins, "partial waxy mutants" lacking one or two of the three proteins have been found. Using such partial waxy mutants, tetra- and hexaploid waxy mutants with endosperms that are stained red-brown by iodine...
Topics
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Mutation
- Plant Proteins
- Polyploidy
- Starch Synthase
- Triticum