Overexpression of Puroindoline a gene in transgenic durum wheat (Triticum turgidum ssp. durum) leads to a medium-hard kernel texture

Molecular Breeding

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 545-554

  Li, Yin ^a   Mao, Xiang ^a   Wang, Qiong ^a   Zhang, Jinrui ^b   Li, Xiaoyan ^a   Ma, Fengyun ^a   Sun, Fusheng ^a   Chang, Junli ^a   Chen, Mingjie ^a   Wang, Yuesheng ^a   Li, Kexiu ^a   Yang, Guangxiao ^a   He, Guangyuan ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Durum wheat; Flour yield; Grain hardness; Kernel texture; Puroindoline; Transgenic wheat

Indexed keywords

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); HARDNESS; MILLING (MACHINING); STARCH;

CONTROL LINES; DURUM WHEATS; FLOUR YIELD; GRAIN HARDNESS; KERNEL TEXTURE; OVEREXPRESSIONS; PUROINDOLINE A; PUROINDOLINES; TRANSGENIC WHEAT; TRANSGENICS;

GENES;

EID: 84893542170     PISSN: 13803743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11032-013-9971-4     Document Type: Article

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