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A single mutation that increases maize seed weight.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 11 Jun 1996
Giroux M J, Shaw J, Barry G, Cobb B G, Greene T, Okita T, Hannah L C
Abstract excerpt
The maize endosperm-specific gene shrunken2 (Sh2) encodes the large subunit of the heterotetrameric starch synthetic enzyme adenosine diphosphoglucose pyrophosphorylase (AGP; EC 2.7.7.27). Here we exploit an in vivo, site-specific mutagenesis system to create short insertion mutations in a region of the gene known to be involved in the allosteric regulation of AGP. The site-specific mutagen is the transposable...
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