Inefficient and incorrect processing of the Ac transposase transcript in iae1 and wild-type Arabidopsis thaliana

Plant Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 921-931

  Jarvis, Paul ^a,b   Belzile, François ^a,c   Dean, Caroline ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; PLANT RNA; RNA PRECURSOR; TRANSPOSASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOBACCO; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 0031148747     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1997.11050921.x     Document Type: Article

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