Transcriptional initiation sites in sorghum mitochondrial DNA indicate conserved and variable features

Current Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 287-295

  Yan B, ^a,b   Pring, D R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mitochondria; Sorghum; Transcription promoters

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA;

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA PROBE; SORGHUM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CEREALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0030664991     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050279     Document Type: Article

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