Brown-midrib maize (bm1) - A mutation affecting the cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase gene

Plant Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 545-553

  Halpin, Claire ^d   Holt, Karen ^a   Chojecki, Jan ^a   Oliver, Duncan ^a   Chabbert, Brigitte ^b   Monties, Bernard ^b   Edwards, Keith ^c   Barakate, Abdellah ^d   Foxon, Geoffrey A ^a  

^a JEALOTT S HILL RESEARCH STATION   (United Kingdom)

^b Macromol Vegetales   (France)

^c ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CINNAMYL ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; LIGNIN; MAIZE; MOLECULAR MAPPING; MUTANT; MUTATION; POLYMER;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLOR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; LIGNIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0032102476     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1998.00153.x     Document Type: Article

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