Dominant negative mutants of opaque2 suppress transactivation of a 22-kD zein promoter by opaque2 in maize endosperm cells

Plant Cell

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 1993, Pages 831-841

  Unger, Erica ^a   Parsons, Ronald L ^b   Schmidt, Robert J ^b   Bowen, Ben ^a   Roth, Bradley A ^a  

^a PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0000319339     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3869652     Document Type: Article

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