G-string slippage turns white rice red.
The mutations that convey the white pericarp phenotype to rice (Oryza sativa subsp. japonica) are in a regulatory gene, Rc. We have identified a genetic difference between the cultivar 'Perla' and its natural red rice mutant 'Perla Rosso' in the Rc gene. The deletion of a G base restores the reading frame for the Rc gene, lost by the original 14 bp deletion that gave rise to white rice.
Lee
David
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John Bingham Laboratory, National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0LE, UK. david.lee@niab.com
Lupotto
Elisabetta
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Powell
Wayne
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D018744:DNA, Plant / Q000235:genetics; D005799:Genes, Dominant; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012275:Oryza / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D010858:Pigmentation / Q000235:genetics*; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
D018744:DNA, Plant; D010940:Plant Proteins