Molecular consequences of Ds insertion into and excision from the helix- loop-helix domain of the maize R gene

Genetics

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1639-1648

  Liu, Yanhong ^a,d   Wang, Liangjiang ^a   Kermicle, Jerry L ^c   Wessler, Susan R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; MUTANT PROTEIN; PLANT DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURAL GENE; TRANSPOSON;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, PLANT; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; ZEA MAYS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031790022     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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