GrainGenes Reference Report: JCS-40-69
Reference
JCS-40-69
Title
Isolation and characterisation of novel starch mutants of oats
Journal
Journal of Cereal Science
Year
2004
Volume
40
Pages
69-79
Author
Verhoeven T Fahy B Leggett M Moates G Denyer K
Abstract
Summary: Mutagenised grains of the diploid oat, Avena strigosa Schreb., were screened for altered starch granules in the endosperm. Three mutant lines were identified: mutants lam-1 and lam-2 had granules that stained red with iodine solution and sga-1 had endosperm containing soluble material that stained red with iodine solution, as well as blue-staining starch granules. The lam-1 and lam-2 lines lack or have severely reduced amounts of granule-bound starch synthase activity, the granule-bound starch synthase I protein and the amylose component of starch in the endosperm. They therefore represent mutations of the waxy type. The red-staining, soluble material in the sga-1 mutant is very similar in appearance and chain-length profile to the phytoglycogen that accumulates in the endosperms of the sugary-1 mutants of cereals. All sugary-1 mutants lack or have reduced amounts of isoamylase activity. However, native gel assays reveal a normal isoamylase activity in the developing endosperms of sga-1 suggesting that it is not of the sugary-1 type. The nature of the mutation responsible for the sga-1 phenotype has yet to be discovered
Keyword
amylopectin biosynthesis
[ Show all 19 ]
GrainGenes is a product of the Agricultural Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture.
GrainGenes Reference Report: JCS-40-69
|
| ||||||
|
| ||||||
|
| ||||||
|
| ||||||
|
| ||||||
|
| ||||||
|
| ||||||
|
| ||||||
|
|
GrainGenes is a product of the Agricultural Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture. | |||