The invention discloses a method for increasing a
germination rate of stored wheat and a white degree of flour through
endosperm specific silencing of expression of a wheat
lipoxygenase gene. The method can reduce an activity of
lipoxygenase (LOX) in wheat
endosperm by specifically inhibiting the expression of the
lipoxygenase gene in the wheat
endosperm through an
RNA interference (RANi) technology. An obtained LOX-RNAi wheat strain high-generation material (T6) is stable in a copy number of transgenosis. The expression of the LOX
gene in the endosperm is significantly reduced and the activity of the LOX is significantly reduced. A
field experiment proves that important growth indexes of the LOX-RNAi wheat strain, compared with the important growth indexes of a
wild strain (Longchun 23), are free of any significant change. A
germination experiment is carried out to seeds stored for 30 days after being harvested and proves that the
germination rate of three transgenic strains is free from being obviously different from the germination rate of the
wild strain. A flour-milling experiment proves that of the flour produced from the transgenic strain, compared with the white degree of the flour produced from the
wild strain, is significantly improved. The germination rate of the wild strain, compared with the germination rate of the transgenic strain, is significantly reduced after an
artificial aging process, and meanwhile the flour produced from the wild strain, compared with the white degree of the flour produced from the transgenic strain, is significantly reduced.