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A Tris-Tricine gel-electrophoresis system (Schaegger and von Jagow 1987), combined with a gradient gel, has been employed to provide an improved resolution of the B and C low-molecular-weight glutenin subunits (LMW-GSs) found in the endosperm of wheat grain. The gel system was used to document the variation in the gluten subunit proteins present in A-genome diploid wheats. The majority of LMW-GSs found in the A-genome diploid wheats were not present in normal bread wheats; the data suggest that they represent a rich source of new variation for the LMW-GSs which are considered to be very important in modulating wheat flour-processing properties. The analysis of variation in the nature of the LMW-GS genes, using PCR, demonstrated that the subclass of C-subunits assayed by primers from a previously published sequence did not show as much variation as the proteins. However, the data collected suggest that sufficient variation may exist in the LMW-GS genes of A-genome diploid wheats to use them as a source of genes for altering the flour-processing properties of hexaploid wheat.
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Received: 24 November 1997 / Accepted: 18 August 1998
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Lee, YK., Bekes, F., Gupta, R. et al. The low-molecular-weight glutenin subunit proteins of primitive wheats. I. Variation in A-genome species. Theor Appl Genet 98, 119–125 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001220051048
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001220051048