Table IV.
Effect of sbe1 mutation on the properties of grain morphology and starches in rice endosperm
| Line
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Grain Size
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Starch Content
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Starch-Iodine Complex
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Apparent Amylose Content
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Length | Width | Thickness | Weight | λmax | BV680a | λmaxb | BV680c | |||
| mm | mg | % | nm | % | ||||||
| T65 | 5.4 ± 0.1 | 3.1 ± 0.1 | 2.1 ± 0.1 | 24.3 ± 1.3 | 18.2 ± 0.5 | 75.1 | 561 | 0.59 | 16.7 | 18.9 |
| EM557S | 5.3 ± 0.1 | 3.0 ± 0.1 | 2.1 ± 0.1 | 23.4 ± 1.8 | 17.6 ± 0.3 | 75.2 | 562 | 0.60 | 16.9 | 18.9 |
a Blue value (BV) 680, the absorbance at 680 nm of starch-iodine complex.
b Amylose content determined from the λmax.
c Amylose content determined from the BV680.