RNA interference-mediated silencing of the starch branching enzyme gene improves amylose content in rice
“RNA interference-mediated silencing of the starch branching enzyme gene improves amylose content in rice”, vol. 12, pp. 2800-2808, 2013.
, Amylose and amylopectin are the 2 major components of plant storage starch. The rice starch branching enzyme (RBE) plays an important role in the starch components of rice. In the present study, we selected a specific 195-bp segment from the RBE3 gene to construct hairpin DNA, which was driven by an endosperm-specific high molecular weight glutenin promoter to regulate the biosynthesis of starch. An RNA interference plasmid for the RBE3 gene was constructed to form double-stranded RNA.