Molecular organization of a gene in barley which encodes a protein similar to aspartic protease and its specific expression in nucellar cells during degeneration

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 821-831

  Chen, Fuqiang ^a   Foolad, Majid R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspartic protease; Barley; Gene expression; Nucellar cell; Nucellin

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; NUCELLIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BARLEY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL DEATH; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT SEED;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DEATH; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HORDEUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; SEEDS;

EID: 0031457314     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005833207707     Document Type: Article

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