Open AccessThe amino‐acid composition in endosperm and embryo of a barley variety and its high lysine mutant
Author(s) -
TALLBERG ANNELI
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
hereditas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1601-5223
pISSN - 0018-0661
DOI - 10.1111/j.1601-5223.1977.tb01243.x
Subject(s) - endosperm , lysine , biology , embryo , mutant , amino acid , composition (language) , biochemistry , botany , food science , microbiology and biotechnology , gene , linguistics , philosophy
The differences in amino‐acid composition between Bomi barley and the high lysine 1508‐mutant are exclusively confined to the endosperm proteins. Despite the increased embryo size of the 1508 seed the total lysine content is not appreciably affected by the changed embryo/endosperm weight ratio, and the amino‐acid pattern of the embryo is unaltered when compared with Bomi barley.