MODIFICATION OF STARCH SYNTHESIS IN PLANTS

摘要

Plants, particularly cereal plants which have modifications to their starch synthesising pathway contain a DNA specifying the enzyme soluble starch synthase which has the sequence SEQ ID NO 1 or SEQ ID NO 2 or SEQ ID NO 3. The inserted gene may be inserted in a sense or anti-sense construct. The alteration introduced by the inserted genes may be a greater or reduced ability to produce starch or starch which has a different fine structure such as a different pattern of branching.