Table 2. Candidate Genes for QTLs Related to Rice Eating Quality and a Search of the Genomics DB^a.

candidate gene	clone	markers developed	chrb	QTL	source
granule−bound starch synthase1 (GBSS1)	AP002542	GBSS1	6	OSR19−RM587	Kwon et al. (18)
sucrose synthase 3 (S3)	AP004988	S3cI, S3cII	7	RM234−RM47	Kwon et al. (18)
trehalose phosphatase(Tre)	AP004341	TreB	7	RM234−RM47	Kwon et al. (18)
UDP−N−acetylglucosamine pyrophosphorylase (AcPh)	AP003875	AcPh	8	RM547−RM72	Kwon et al. (18)
glucosamine−fructose−6−phosphate aminotransferase (GPA)	AC138454	GPA	11	RM20b−RM332	Kwon et al. (18)
aspartate aminotransferase (AM)	AP003991	Ams	2	OSR8−OSR9	Suh et al. (19)
noncyanogenic β−glucosidase (CBG)	AC074354	CBG	10	RM2887	Wada et al. (12)
ADP−glucose pyrophosphorylase/shrunken gene (SH)	AP004317	SH51	1		Genomics DB

^ahttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/, http://rgp.dna.affrc.go.jp/E/IRGSP/index.html, http://rice.plantbiology.msu.edu/, and http://www.gramene.org/.

^bChromosome location.