Molecular cloning and characterization of the Amylose-Extender gene encoding starch branching enzyme IIb in maize

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 945-956

  Kim, Kyung Nam ^a   Fisher, Dane K ^a   Gao, Ming ^a   Guiltinan, Mark J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ae; Amylose extender; Genomic organization; Promoter analysis; Starch branching enzyme; Zea mays L.

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DELETION MUTAGENESIS; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DNA FRAGMENT; DNA ISOLATION; GENE FUSION; LUCIFERASE; MAIZE; MESSENGER RNA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENETICS; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SUSPENSION CELL CULTURE; TATA BOX;

1,4-ALPHA-GLUCAN BRANCHING ENZYME; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; INTRONS; LUCIFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEEDS; ZEA MAYS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0032422739     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006057609995     Document Type: Article

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