Members of a low-copy number gene family encoding glutamyl-tRNA reductase are differentially expressed in barley

Plant Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 867-878

  Bougri, Oleg ^a   Grimm, Bernhard ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE;

ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTAMYL TRNA REDUCTASE; MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BARLEY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALDEHYDE OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HORDEUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030162258     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1996.9060867.x     Document Type: Article

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