Alteration of the expression of a plant defensin gene by exon shuffling in bell pepper (Capsicum annuum L.)

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 259, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 504-510

  Houlne G ^a   Meyer, B ^a   Schantz, R ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC DES PLANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Capsicum annuum; Gene expression; Genomic structure; Plant defensin; Run off transcription

Indexed keywords

DEFENSIN; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE; INTRON; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPPER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CAPSICUM; DEFENSINS; DNA PROBES; EXONS; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REARRANGEMENT; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CAPSICUM ANNUUM; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0031680747     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050841     Document Type: Article

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