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Allele-dependent barley grain beta-amylase activity.
Plant physiology - 1 Jun 1998
Erkkilä M J, Leah R, Ahokas H, Cameron-Mills V
Abstract excerpt
The wild ancestor of cultivated barley, Hordeum vulgare subsp. spontaneum (K. Koch) A. & Gr. (H. spontaneum), is a source of wide genetic diversity, including traits that are important for malting quality. A high beta-amylase trait was previously identified in H. spontaneum strains from Israel, and transferred into the backcross progeny of a cross with the domesticated barley cv Adorra. We have used Southern-blot...
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