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From: Phenotypic analyses of rice lse2 and lse3 mutants that exhibit hyperaccumulation of starch in the leaf blades

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Starch-excess phenotypes of rice lse mutants at the fifth leaf stage. Rice seedlings were sampled in the morning and subjected to iodine staining (A) or to microscopic observation (B–E). A, typical results of iodine staining in WT, lse1, lse2, and lse3 seedlings. Note that the youngest fifth leaf blades were still elongating very slowly and were not stained in lse2. Asterisks indicate the fifth leaf blade of rice seedlings. Bar = 10 cm. B–E, representative TEM images of transverse sections of fully-developed leaf blades of WT (B), lse1 (C), lse2 (D), and lse3 (E). The fourth leaf blades were used for lse2; fifth leaf blades were used for the others. Arrowheads indicate starch granules in mesophyll chloroplasts. Scale bars = 1 μm.

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