Plant nuclear tRNAMet genes are ubiquitously interrupted by introns

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 427-434

  Akama, Kazuhito ^a   Kashihara, Mika ^a,b  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Intron; Plant tRNAMet genes; Precursor tRNA; Splicing

Indexed keywords

METHIONINE TRANSFER RNA; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; RNA PRECURSOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PLANT; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, PLANT; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLANTS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, PLANT; RNA, TRANSFER, MET; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0030292793     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00019094     Document Type: Article

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