National Botanic Gardens, Lucknow, India
*The data incorporated in the present report was collected in the Deptt. of Biochemistry, Purdue University, U.S.A. under a grant from U.S. Agency for International Development AID/Csd-2809.
Whenever opaque-2 gene was combined with other starch modifying genes an increase in lysine and tryptophan was observed. Increase in these amino acids was coupled with an increase in saline soluble fraction and the glutelins. This character of opaque-2 gene could be utilized in the production of lysine rich mutants for baby foods or in the treatment of malnutrition.
