Characterization and comparative analysis of HMW glutenin 1Ay alleles with differential expressions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

High-molecular-weight glutenin subunits (HMW-GSs) have been considered as most important seed storage proteins for wheat flour quality. 1Ay subunits are of great interest because they are always silent in common wheat. The presence of expressed 1Ay subunits in diploid and tetraploid wheat genotypes makes it possible to investigate molecular information of active 1Ay genes.

Results

We identified 1Ay subunits with different electrophoretic mobility from 141 accessions of diploid and tetraploid wheats, and obtained the complete ORFs and 5' flanking sequences of 1Ay genes including 6 active and 3 inactive ones. Furthermore, the 5' flanking sequences were characterized from 23 wild diploid species of Triticeae. All 6 active 1Ay possess a typical HMW-GS primary structur

SUBMITTER: Jiang QT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2667398 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature