WHEAT HAVING REDUCED WAXY PROTEIN DUE TO NON-TRANSGENIC ALTERATIONS OF A WAXY GENE

摘要

A series of independent non-transgenic mutations found at thewaxy loci of wheat; wheat plants having these mutations in their waxy loci; and a method of creating and finding similar and/or additional mutations of the waxy by screening pooled and/or individual wheat plants. The wheat plants of the present invention exhibiting altered waxy activity in the wheat without havi ng the inclusion of foreign nucleic acids in their genomes. The invention also includes food and non-food products as well as non-food products that incorporate seeds from the wheat plants having non-transgenic mutations in o ne or more waxy genes.