Patent ID: 7700826

Claim:
A process for identifying a wheat plant comprising a starch synthase II null allele or a starch synthase II mutant allele, the process comprising a) contacting a nucleic acid sample of a wheat plant with two nucleic acid primers including at least one sequence-specific amplification primer for a time and under conditions sufficient for a polymerase chain reaction to occur, the first of the primers comprising at least 15 contiguous nucleotides whose sequence is selected from a nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 37, and the second of the primers comprising at least 15 contiguous nucleotides whose sequence is complementary to a nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 37; and b) determining whether a nucleic acid of the sample is amplified by polymerase chain reaction, so as to thereby identify the wheat plant that comprises the starch synthase II null allele or the starch synthase II mutant allele.