Alternative processing of the maize Ac transcript in Arabidopsis

Plant Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 933-943

  Martin, D J ^a,b   Firek, S ^a   Moreau, E ^a   Draper, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT RNA; POLYADENYLIC ACID; RNA PRECURSOR; TRANSPOSASE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PROCESSING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; POLY A; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOBACCO; TRANSPOSASES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031148936     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1997.11050933.x     Document Type: Article

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