Nuclear mutations that block group II RNA splicing in maize chloroplasts reveal several intron classes with distinct requirements for splicing factors

Plant Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 283-296

  Jenkins, Bethany D ^a   Kulhanek, Doris J ^a   Barkan, Alice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

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EID: 0031106356     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.9.3.283     Document Type: Article

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