Introduction of Wx transgene into rice wx mutants leads to both high- and low-amylose rice

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 473-480

  Itoh, Kimiko ^a   Ozaki, Hiroko ^a   Okada, Kyoko ^a   Hori, Hidetaka ^a   Takeda, Yasuhito ^b   Mitsui, Toshiaki ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amylose; Granule bound starch synthase (GBSS); Japonica rice; Oryza sativa L.; Wx

Indexed keywords

AMYLOSE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; MUTATION; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEEDS; STARCH SYNTHASE; TRANSGENES;

EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; JAPONICA; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 0037671338     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcg068     Document Type: Article

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