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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Hamada S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3949582 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hamada Shigeki S Suzuki Keitaro K Suzuki Yasuhiro Y
Breeding science 20140301 5
Brown rice of sugary-1 mutants has a wrinkled character because of the presence of phytoglycogen instead of starch in the inner part of the endosperm. Because the wrinkled phenotype was used as a sole selection marker for progeny of the sugary-1 strain, identification of mutant seeds with improved appearance is very difficult. We found that sugary-1 varieties contained not only phytoglycogen but also free glucose in the endosperm, and these were positively correlated. In the segregated F2 seeds ...[more]