Abstract
Good or poor wheat bread-making quality is associated with two allelic pairs at theGlu-D1 complex locus, designated 1Dx5-1Dy10 and 1Dx2-1Dy12, respectively. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) verified the presence of the HMW-glutenin 1Dx5 gene from genomic DNA extracted from part of the endosperm of a single dry seed, or a small amount of leaf or root tissue, of several bread-wheat cultivars. This easy, quick, and non-destructive PCR-based approach is proposed as a very efficient and safe alternative to standard procedures for selecting bread-wheat genotypes with good bread-making properties.
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D'Ovidio, R., Anderson, O.D. PCR analysis to distinguish between alleles of a member of a multigene family correlated with wheat bread-making quality. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 88, 759–763 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01253982
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