A naturally occurring functional allele of the rice waxy locus has a GT to TT mutation at the 5' splice site of the first intron

Plant Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 133-138

  Isshiki, Masayuki ^a   Morino, Kazuko ^a   Nakajima, Midori ^b   Okagaki, Ron J ^c,d   Wessler, Susan R ^c   Izawa, Takeshi ^a   Shimamoto, Ko ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; AMYLOSE; CULTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; INTRON; MESSENGER RNA; MUTANT; MUTATION; PROTOPLAST; REPORTER GENE; RICE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STARCH SYNTHASE;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTOPLASTS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; STARCH SYNTHASE;

EID: 0032127572     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1998.00189.x     Document Type: Article

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