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US 11,266,171 B2Granted
Production of food and beverage products from barley grain
AssigneeThe Healthy Grain Pty Limited
InventorsZhongyi Li, Matthew Kennedy Morell, Stephen Alan Jobling
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Abstract
The present invention provides a process for producing a food ingredient or beverage ingredient. The present invention also provides a process for producing food product or beverage product. The present invention also provides a process for providing starch, amylose, amylopectin, β-glucan, fructan, non-starch polysaccharide, dietary fibre or resistant starch to improve one or more indicators of health in a mammal.
Claims18
Barley grain comprising:
- (a) starch,
- (b) a first genetic variation which is an induced mutation in an endogenous gene encoding a starch synthase III (SSIII) wherein the endogenous gene encodes an SSIII protein comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 98% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:
- 4, wherein the first genetic variation is a homozygous null mutation,
- (c) a reduced level or activity of SSIII protein relative to the level or activity in barley grain lacking the first genetic variation, and
- (d) an amylose content of at least 40% as a proportion of the total starch in the grain as determined by iodine binding assay.
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