Sentences with phrase «starch synthases»
The team eliminated three of the four known starch synthases by inserting backward copies of the genes for each one into the potato genome, which, through an unknown mechanism, interferes with the translation of the nearby normal gene.
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Food chemist Steve Jobling at Unilever Research in Sharnbrook, United Kingdom, and colleagues at the National Starch and Chemical Co. in Bridgewater, New Jersey, blocked starch synthases, enzymes that stitch glucose units into long chains.