This book aims to up-date our present understanding of the origin of cultivated rice and in
doing so involves different disciplines of biology and the archaeological-historical sciences …

In order to examine the effects of different alleles on the gene expression at the waxy locus,
the Wx gene product which controls the synthesis of amylose was isolated from endosperm …

Starch is a significant ingredient of the seed endosperm with commercial importance in food
and industry. Crop varieties with glutinous (waxy) grain characteristics, ie starch with high …

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Nutritional Quality and Food, Feed,
Medicinal, and Other Uses Domestication, Phylogenetic, and Genomic Relationships …

Studies on the domestication, genetic differentiation, and crop evolution of foxtail millet are
reviewed in this paper. Several genetic studies were carried out to elucidate the genetic …

Abstract 1 The present investigations have been performed to characterize the structure of
amylopectin in endosperm of rice plants cultivated in Asian countries, and to determine the …

The rice waxy (wx) locus has two functional alleles, Wxa and Wxb, which are defined by a
large difference in the amount of the gene product, called Wx protein, that accumulates in …

Starch granules were isolated from polished grains of rice plants (Oriza sativa L.) grown
under controlled temperature conditions. Distribution of isoamylase‐debranched starch …

In this paper, we characterized the Wx-mq gene for low amylose content in a rice variety,
Milky Queen, at the molecular level. The Wx-mq gene was cloned by RTPCR, and a nearly …

The starch properties of five low‐amylose rice cultivars, Yawarakomachi, Soft 158,
Hanabusa, Aya, and Snow Pearl, were compared with those of two normal amylose rice …