Development of high amylose wheat through TILLING.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Wheat (Triticum spp.) is an important source of food worldwide and the focus of considerable efforts to identify new combinations of genetic diversity for crop improvement. In particular, wheat starch composition is a major target for changes that could benefit human health. Starches with increased levels of amylose are of interest because of the correlation between higher amylose content and elevated levels of resistant starch, which has been shown to have beneficial effects on health for combating obesity and diabetes. TILLING (Targeting Induced Local Lesions in Genomes) is a means to identify novel genetic variation without the need for direct selection of phenotypes.

Results

Using TILLING to identify novel genetic variation in each of the A and B genomes in te

SUBMITTER: Slade AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3424102 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature