Table 1.
Dehulled grain weight, and soluble and insoluble α-glucan content in dry seeds of transgenic rice and their parents
| Lines | Dehulled grain weighta (mg) | Soluble α-glucanb (mg) | Insoluble α-glucanb (mg) | % of insoluble fraction of total α-glucan | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taichung 65 | Wild type | 19.4±1.5 | (100)c | 0.38±0.15 | 14.2±0.73 | 97.4 | ||||||
| EM914 | isa1 | 11.3±0.2 | (58.2) | 3.80±0.89 | 0.12±0.06 | 3.1 | ||||||
| #1 | SSIIa I /isa1 | 8.1±1.0 | (41.8) | 2.87±0.38 | 1.04±0.12 | 26.6 | ||||||
| #2 (3)d | SSIIa I /isa1 | 10.6±0.2 | (54.6) | 3.49±0.43 | 3.63±0.53 | 51.0 | ||||||
| #2 (4) | SSIIa I /isa1 | 8.9±1.0 | (45.9) | 1.65±0.39 | 2.54±0.23 | 60.6 | ||||||
| #7 | SSIIa I /isa1 | 7.8±1.3 | (40.2) | 3.26±0.46 | 1.72±0.16 | 34.5 | ||||||
| #20 (4) | SSIIa I /isa1 | 7.3±0.4 | (37.6) | 1.58±0.53 | 2.05±0.33 | 56.5 | ||||||
| #20 (6) | SSIIa I /isa1 | 9.3±1.0 | (47.9) | 1.97±0.30 | 3.72±0.19 | 65.4 |
a Mean ±SE of 20 seeds.
b n=3.
c Percentage of the wild type.
d These numbers correspond to the sample number from Fig. 2, which originated from the same T3 seeds.