Dominant amylose-extender mutant of maize
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A transferrable maize gene is disclosed which is a dominant mutant allele at the amylose-extender (ae) locus. Maize seeds having this gene produce a high-amylose starch.
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Molecular marker-assisted selection of the ae alleles in maize.
The ae (amylose extender) recessive mutant alleles in maize are an important genetic resource for the development of high-amylose cultivars. On the basis of ae allele sequences (from the National Center for Biotechnology Information), the ae mutant alleles were cloned from high-amylose maize and the allelic Ae gene from common maize luyuan92 inbred lines. Five pairs of primers were designed to ...
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