Abstract
Abstract
Background
ALK is the key gene controlling rice gelatinization temperature (GT), which is closely associated with the eating and cooking quality (ECQ) in rice (Oryza sativa L.). To date, at least three ALK alleles are thought to be responsible for the diversity of GT among rice cultivars. The ALKc/SSIIai allele with high activity of the soluble starch synthase IIa (SSIIa) controls high GT, but the accurate functional difference between ALKa and ALKb alleles, both controlling low GT, is not clearly elucidated. Thus, we generated rice near-isogenic lines (NILs) by introducing different ALK alleles into the japonica cultivar Nipponbare (Nip) to clarify the discrepant effects of the two low-GT ALK alleles.
Results
The results showed that the function of two low-GT alleles (ALKa and ALKb) was different, and a much lower GT was observed in NIL(ALKb) rice grains compared with that of Nip(ALKa). Moreover, the starches of NIL(ALKb) grains had a higher degree of branching, higher setback, consistence and higher cool pasting viscosity than those of Nip(ALKa). The lower expression level of ALKb, compared with ALKa, resulted in depleted intermediate chains and increased short chains of amylopectin, thus affected the thermal and pasting properties of NILs’ grains. Also, the data revealed both low-GT alleles were mainly found in temperate japonica, but more ALKb was found in other subpopulations such as indica as compared to ALKa.
Conclusions
Overall, all the results suggested that the function between two low-GT alleles was different, and the distribution of ALKb was much wider than that of ALKa among the subpopulations of cultivated rice.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Government of Jiangsu Province
Open Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Plant Science,Soil Science,Agronomy and Crop Science
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