Use of alternate splice sites in granule-bound starch synthase mRNA from low-amylose rice varieties

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 407-415

  Bligh, H Frances J ^a   Larkin, Patrick D ^b   Roach, Paul S ^a   Jones, Christopher A ^a   Fu, Hongyong ^b,c   Park, William D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Intron; Rice; Splicing; Waxy

Indexed keywords

ABACA; ALLELE; CULTIVAR; MESSENGER RNA; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT GENETICS; STARCH SYNTHASE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMYLOSE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; STARCH SYNTHASE;

EMBRYOPHYTA; MUSA TEXTILIS; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 0032189134     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006021807799     Document Type: Article

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