Characterization of dull1, a maize gene coding for a novel starch synthase

Plant Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 399-412

  Gao, Ming ^a,b   Wanat, Jennifer ^a   Stinard, Philip S ^a,c   James, Martha G ^a   Myers, Alan M ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE PRODUCT; MAIZE; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT GENETICS; POTATO; STARCH BRANCHING ENZYME IIA; STARCH SYNTHASE II; TRANSPOSON TAGGING;

EMBRYOPHYTA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0032029093     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.10.3.399     Document Type: Article

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