Iron is an essential micronutrient for human nutrition and polished rice contains very low amount of iron. Rice with high iron content in seed endosperm has been developed by insertion of soybean ferritin gene under the control of the endosperm specific glutelin promoter into the genome of indica rice line IR68144. The nutritional composition of the brown and milled rice grain has been compared...

Electron microscopic observation of thin sections of rice (Oryza sativa L.) endosperm revealed two types of protein bodies (PBs): spherical and irregular-shaped ones. Immunocytochemical localization studies using antibodies raised against purified glutelins, prolamines, and globulins indicated that the prolamines were localized in the spherical PB, whereas the irregular-shaped PB contained glut...

Seed protein of foxtai1 and proso millets were fractionated into polypeptides that were analyzed for their major protein, prolamin, and the NHrterminal amine acid seqllenccs of the proteins were determined. The proteins extracted from foxtail and proso millets were 64.1% and 80.0% prolamin, respectively. The polypeptides of the prolamins were classMed into two groups. The majer polypeptides of ...

A genomic clone (p268c) coding for the 28 kD storage protein Zc2 from maize endosperm has been isolated and sequenced. Formerly known as 28 kD glutelin-2 protein in previous works (1, 2), the sequence of the cDNA and of another genomic clone has been published. In this record, we report 1120 bp corresponding to the far upstream sequence reaching 1709 nucleotides from the first codon. The coding...