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Science 10 December 1965:
Vol. 150. no. 3702, pp. 1469 - 1470
DOI: 10.1126/science.150.3702.1469
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Second Mutant Gene Affecting the Amino Acid Pattern of Maize Endosperm Proteins

Oliver E. Nelson 1, Edwin T. Mertz 2, and Lynn S. Bates 2

1 Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana
2 Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University

The mutant floury-2 results in the production of maize endosperm proteins with an altered amino acid pattern. The lysine concentration is high, eapproximately equal to that in mutant opaque-2, and the methionine concentration is higher than in any other stock tested. Other mutants of similar phenotype!, opaque-1, floury-1, and soft-starch do not cause major changes in amino acid Pattern.


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