Development of waxy Cassava with different biological and physico-chemical characteristics of starches for industrial applications
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Zhao, S.-S., Dufour, D., Sánchez, T., Ceballos, H. and Zhang, P. (2011), Development of waxy cassava with different Biological and physico-chemical characteristics of starches for industrial applications. Biotechnol. Bioeng., 108: 1925–1935. doi: 10.1002/bit.23120
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The quality of cassava starch, an important trait in cassava breeding programs, determines its applications in various industries. For example, development of waxy (having a low level of amylose) cassava is in demand. Amylose is synthesized by granule-bound starch synthase I (GBSSI) in plants, and therefore, down-regulation of GBSSI expression in cassava might lead to reduced amylose content. We produced 63 transgenic cassava plant lines that express hair-pin dsRNAs homologous to the cassava GBSSI conserved region under the control of the vascular-specific promoter p54/1.0 from cassava (p54/1.0