Disruption of a rice gene for α-glucan water dikinase, OsGWD1, leads to hyperaccumulation of starch in leaves but exhibits limited effects on growth

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Hirose, Tatsuro ^a,b   Aoki, Naohiro ^b   Harada, Yusuke ^b   Okamura, Masaki ^b   Hashida, Yoichi ^b   Ohsugi, Ryu ^b   Miyao, Akio ^c   Hirochika, Hirohiko ^c   Terao, Tomio ^a  

^a FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Assimilate partitioning; Gene disruption mutant; Leaf starch; Rice; glucan water dikinase

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891372141     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00147     Document Type: Article

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