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Hordoindolines, the tryptophan-rich polypeptides affecting grain hardness in barley, appeared as three pairs of polypeptides in the acidic polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (A-PAGE) and two-dimensional A-PAGE × SDS-PAGE patterns of starch-granule proteins from 18 barley cultivars. On capillary RP-HPLC/nESI-MS/MS spectrometry, one pair of polypeptides was found to correspond to hordoindoline A (HINA), one to hordoindoline B1 (HINB1) and one to hordoindoline B2 (HINB2), the two polypeptides of each pair deriving from post-translational cleavage of a native hordoindoline at different positions at the N-terminus and/or C-terminus. Amongst the barley cultivars analyzed, cvs Hart and Sundance, which were claimed to be unique in lacking the Hina gene coding for HINA, revealed similar Hina coding sequences and accumulated hordoindoline HINA on their starch granules. The amount of total hordoindolines (HINA + HINB1 + HINB2) on the starch granules, as quantified by densitometric scanning of A-PAGE gels, was comparable with that of puroindolines (PINA + PINB) in soft-textured wheat. By contrast, the amount of B-type hordoindolines (HINB1 and HINB2 combined) was 50 % lower than that of PINB, suggesting that the absence of barley cultivars with soft kernels is likely due to the reduced amount of B-type hordoindolines accumulated on the starch granules. Approximately 22 and 27 % of the phenotypic variation for kernel hardness in 56 barley cultivars analyzed by the Single Kernel Characterization System (SKCS) were explained by differences in kernel weight and B-type hordoindoline level, respectively. By contrast, the outer husk of barley grain showed no effect on the SKCS index.
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Galassi, E., Gazzelloni, G., Taddei, F. et al. Kernel texture and hordoindoline patterns in barley (Hordeum vulgare). Mol Breeding 30, 1551–1562 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11032-012-9738-3
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