Isolation and characterization of the zSSIIa and zSSIIb starch synthase cDNA clones from maize endosperm

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 639-649

  Harn, Chee ^a   Knight, Mary ^b   Ramakrishnan, Aravind ^a   Guan, Hanping ^c   Keeling, Peter L ^c   Wasserman, Bruce P ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JEALOTT S HILL RESEARCH STATION   (United Kingdom)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amylopectin and amylose; E. coil expression systems; Endosperm; Maize (Zea mays); Starch synthase; Waxy protein

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHLOROPLAST; CLONE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENDOSPERM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; OPEN READING FRAME; PEA; POTATO; RESIDUE; STARCH SYNTHASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STARCH SYNTHASE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0032128032     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006079009072     Document Type: Article

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