Characterization of the molecular defect in a null allele of the opaque-2 locus of maize

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1159-1161

  Hoschek, Gisela ^a   Russell, Kelly A ^a   Schmidt, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bg; Endosperm; Maize; Opaque 2; Transposon

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; OPAQUE 2 PROTEIN, ZEA MAYS; OPAQUE-2 PROTEIN, ZEA MAYS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE; GENETICS; MAIZE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEA MAYS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030480555     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00041400     Document Type: Article

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