The ability to stain mature pollen grains for the presence of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) activity permits the quantitation of ADH+ gametophytes at frequencies below 10-6. This resolution allows reversion and genetic fine structure analyses. The rationale of pollen analysis follows Nelson’s prototype studies with waxy. As with the waxy gene, revertant frequencies for seven Adhi-deficient (Adhi-...

Forty-eight, 21-d-old pigs were used to examine the effects of different types of cooked white rice on starch digestion, digesta and fermentation characteristics, shedding of beta-haemolytic Escherichia coli and performance after weaning. Pigs received one of three rice-based diets: (i) medium-grain Amaroo (AM), (ii) long-grain Doongara (DOON), and (iii) waxy (WAXY). The remainder of the diet c...

Potential trap crops for the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.) (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae), were evaluated through a series of ovipositional preference and larval survival experiments in outdoor screenhouses in 2002 and 2003. Hosts examined as trap crops were glossy and waxy collards, Brassica oleracea L. variety acephala; Indian mustard, Brassica juncea (L.) Czern; and yellow rocket,Ba...

Cereal Chem. 65(5):424-427 The ratio of A chains to B chains of rice amylopectins from two pairs of action of pullulanase on the /3-limit dextrin and from A and B chains by the near isogenic lines differing in the waxy gene was determined by the action combined action of /3-amylase and pullulanase. Waxy and nonwaxy (lowof pullulanase and of /3-amylase plus pullulanase on the fl-limit dextrins a...