The effect of waxy mutations on the granule-bound starch synthases of barley and maize endosperms

Planta

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 230-237

  Hylton, Christopher M ^a   Denyer, Kay ^a   Keeling, Peter L ^b   Chang, Ming Tang ^b   Smith, Alison M ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endosperm; Hordeum; Starch granule; Starch synthase; Waxy mutation; Zea

Indexed keywords

HORDEUM VULGARE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030024933     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00206248     Document Type: Article

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