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Starch Properties and Morphology of Eight Floury Endosperm Mutants in Rice

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PLANTS-BASEL
Volume 12, Issue 20, Pages -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/plants12203541

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floury endosperm mutants; starch properties; starch morphology; cooking and eating quality; rice

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This study analyzed eight mutants with different degrees of floury endosperm generated through EMS mutagenesis. The z2 mutant exhibited significantly increased RVA indexes and urea swelling, while the z4 mutant displayed significantly decreased RVA indexes and urea swelling. These mutants have significant importance for the study of rice eating quality.
Besides increasing grain yield, improving rice (Oryza sativa L.) quality has been paid more and more attention recently. Cooking and eating quality (CEQ) is an important indicator of rice quality. Since CEQs are quantitative traits and challenging for measurement, efforts have mainly focused on two major genes, Wx and SSIIa. Chalkiness and floury endosperm significantly affect the eating quality of rice, leading to noticeable changes in CEQ. Due to the easily observable phenotype of floury endosperm, cloning single gene mutations that cause floury endosperm and evaluating changes in CEQs indirectly facilitate the exploration of the minor genes controlling CEQ. In this study, eight mutants with different degrees of floury endosperm, generated through ethylmethane sulfonate (EMS) mutagenesis, were analyzed. These mutants exhibited wide variation in starch morphology and CEQs. Particularly, the z2 mutant showed spherical starch granules significantly increased rapid visco analyzer (RVA) indexes and urea swelling, while the z4 mutant displayed extremely sharp starch granules and significantly decreased RVA indexes and urea swelling compared to the wild type. Additionally, these mutants still maintained correlations with certain RVA profiles, suggesting that the genes PUL, which affect these indexes, may not undergo mutation. Cloning these mutated genes in the future, especially in z2 and z4, will enhance the genetic network of rice eating quality and hold significant importance for molecular marker-assisted breeding to improve rice quality.

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