Introns act post-transcriptionally to increase expression of the Arabidopsis thaliana tryptophan pathway gene PAT1

Plant Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 455-464

  Rose, Alan B ^a,b   Last, Robert L ^a  

^a United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 0031105860     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1997.11030455.x     Document Type: Article

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