Starch and grain with a novel genotype
AssigneeE. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
InventorsRichard Warren Pearlstein, James Francis Ulrich
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Abstract
Grain, produced by a starch bearing plant, which is homozygous recessive for the waxy gene and heterozygous for the amylose extender gene and also one of the dull, sugary, or shrunken genes yields a starch with novel functional properties which can be utilized for foodstuffs and other applications without chemical modifications.
Claims4
Grain produced by maize in which the genotype of the grain comprises a genome which is homozygous recessive for the waxy gene, heterozygous for the recessive allele of the amylose extender gene, and heterozygous for a recessive allele of a gene selected from the group consisting of dull, sugary-1, or shrunken-1.
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