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Sequence Variation at Candidate Loci in the Starch Metabolism Pathway in Sorghum: Prospects for Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping

^a Institute for Genomic Diversity, 156 Biotechnology Bldg., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY 14853
^b Dep. of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY 14853
^c Dep. of Agronomy, 2004A Throckmorton Hall, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, 66506
^d Dep. of Soil & Crop Science, Texas A&M Univ., 2474 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-2474
^e Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY 14853. This work was supported by funds from the USDA and Hatch awarded to MRT, and by the Institute for Genomic Diversity. Sequence data are available as GenBank accessions EF089570-EF090160

View larger version (19K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. Diagram of the reactions involved in starch synthesis. Abbreviations in boxes refer to enzymes listed in Table II. (adapted from James et al., 2003).

View larger version (15K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 2. Conservation of amino acid 268 in the GBSS gene across grasses and dicots. The Q > H mutation, boxed, is seen only in a sorghum waxy mutant, BTx-Arg1.