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Identification of Cereal Varieties by Gel Electrophoresis of the Grain Proteins

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Seed Analysis

Part of the book series: Modern Methods of Plant Analysis ((MOLMETHPLANT,volume 14))

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If information about the identity, or even genetic history, of a grain sample is sought, it should be possible to read this information from the grain-protein composition. As direct products of gene transcription and translation, proteins contain a wealth of genetic information, ready to be read off, given the appropriate techniques. Zuckerkandl and Pauling (1965) have described the relationship between chemical composition and genotype (or even progenitors) as occurring at several different levels. Semantides (sense-carrying molecules, such as DNA, RNA and proteins) provide reliable information about genotype; this is not so for episemantic molecules (the products of enzymes) or for asemantic molecules (not specifically produced by the organism), since in these latter cases, environmental or extraneous influences might be expected to predominate.

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    Hans Ferdinand Linskens

  2. Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Hans Ferdinand Linskens

  3. Amherst, USA

    Hans Ferdinand Linskens

  4. Department of Viticulture, Enology and Horticulture, Waite Agricultural Research Institute, University of Adelaide, 5064, Glen Osmond, S. A., Australia

    John F. Jackson

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    John F. Jackson

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Wrigley, C.W. (1992). Identification of Cereal Varieties by Gel Electrophoresis of the Grain Proteins. In: Linskens, H.F., Jackson, J.F. (eds) Seed Analysis. Modern Methods of Plant Analysis, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-01639-8_2

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