Molecular genetic and physiological studies of soybean seed mutants
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1997
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Chen, Zhijian
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Shoemaker, Randy
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Seed yield is the principal objective of soybean growers but seed quality is also important for many markets. Understanding the physiological and genetic mechanisms that regulate seed quality are basic to improving seed quality. The objectives of this thesis were a) to study protein body development and carbohydrate accumulation in a shriveled seed mutant, b) to map the shriveled seed gene (Shr), and c) to map two seed storage protein genes (Cgy1 and Gy4). This section will briefly review soybean seed development, seed morphological mutants, seed storage protein mutants, organization of storage protein genes, and soybean molecular linkage maps.
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