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Reference
TAG-100-32
Title
Differential effects of Wx-A1, -B1 and -D1 protein deficiencies on apparent amylose content and starch pasting properties in common wheat
Journal
Theoretical and Applied Genetics
Year
2000
Volume
100
Pages
32-38
Author
Yamamori M
Quynh NT
Abstract
Summary: Waxy (Wx) protein is a granule-bound starch synthase (GBSS) responsible for amylose production in cereal endosperm. Eight isolines of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) having different combinations of presence and absence of three Wx proteins, Wx-A1, -B1, and -D1, were produced in order to elucidate the effect of Wx protein deficiencies on the apparent amylose content and starch-pasting properties. An improved SDS gel electrophoresis showed that 'Bai Huo' (a parental wheat) carried a variant Wx-B1 protein from an allele, Wx-B1e. Thus, wheat lines of types 1, 2, 4, and 6 examined in this study contained a variant Wx-B1 allele and not the standard allele, Wx-B1a. The results from 3 years of experiments using 176 lines derived from two cross-combinations showed that apparent amylose content increased the least in type 8 (waxy) having no Wx proteins and, in ascending order, increased in type 5 (only the Wx-A1 protein is present) <type 7 (Wx-D1) <type 6 (Wx-B1) <type 3 (WxA1 and -D1) <type 4 (Wx-A1 and -B1) <type 2 (Wx-B1 and -D1) <type 1 (three Wx proteins). However, Tukey's studentized range test did not detect significant differences in some cases. Densitometric analysis suggested that the amylose content was related to the amount of the Wx protein in the eight types. Parameters in the Rapid Visco-Analyzer test and swelling power were correlated to amylose content. Consequently, amylose content and pasting properties of starch were determined to be influenced the most by the lack of the Wx-B1 protein, followed by a lack of Wx-D1, and leastly by the Wx-A1 deficiency, which indicated the presence of differential effects of the three null alleles for the Wx protein
External Databases
https://doi.org/10.1007/s001220050005
Allele
Wx-B1e (Triticum)
Gene Class
Starch synthase
Waxy proteins
Keyword
alleles
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Summarized in
ReferenceDubcovsky J MAS Wheat. Bringing Genomics to the Wheat Fields.Starch properties. Waxy mutants MAS Wheat. Marker Assisted Selection in Wheat.

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