The invention discloses a rice
ferritin mutant with improved
thermal stability, a coding
gene and application of the rice
ferritin mutant, the
mutant is rice
ferritin, an extended
peptide EP segment
amino acid sequence of the mutant is replaced by an EP segment
amino acid sequence of soybean ferritin, and the
thermal stability of the rice ferritin is improved; after the
gene encoding the mutant is introduced into rice, the head rice rate of transgenic rice grains is increased, the chalkiness degree is reduced, the total
starch content and
amylose content are increased, the
total protein content and the soluble
sugar content are reduced, the
iron content of the transgenic rice grains is remarkably increased, the
iron content of cooked rice is increased by 1.57-1.95 times compared with that of wild rice, and the rice quality is improved. The problem of serious iron loss of natural ferritin in the
cooking process is partially solved. The
thermal stability of the obtained rice ferritin is remarkably improved, and the rice ferritin can be directly used for producing high-quality polished rice, can also be used as a
raw material for preparing functional foods such as high-iron high-
amylose rice flour and low-
glycemic-index rice products, and has important industrialization value and wide market application prospects.