Cereal Chem 62:162-166   |  VIEW ARTICLE
Characterization of Oat Species by Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis and High Performance Liquid Chromatography of Their Prolamin Proteins.

G. L. Lookhart and Y. Pomeranz. Copyright 1985 by the American Association of Cereal Chemists, Inc. 

Prolamin proteins (avenins) in the groats of 14 oat (Avena) species were characterized by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Generally, complexity of PAGE and HPLC patterns increased as ploidy of the selections increased from diploid (five species), to tetraploid (four species), and to hexaploid (five species). PAGE was more powerful than HPLC in differentiating among species.