Ectopic anthocyanin pigmentation in maize as a tool for defining interactions between homologous regulatory factors

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 256, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 265-276

  Consonni, G ^a   Ronchi, A ^a   Pilu, R ^a   Gavazzi, G ^a   Dellaporta, S L ^b   Tonelli, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthocyanins; Paramutation; R locus; Sn locus; Tissue specificity

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELISM; ARTICLE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC LINKAGE; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATOR GENE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANTHOCYANINS; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REGULATOR; MUTATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PIGMENTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ZEA MAYS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030668256     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050569     Document Type: Article

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