The AG dinucleotide terminating introns is important but not always required for pre-mRNA splicing in the maize endosperm

Plant Physiology

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 65-72

  Lal, Shailesh ^a   Choi, Jae Hyuk ^a   Hannah, L Curtis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; EXON; INTRON; MESSENGER RNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENETICS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0032841283     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.120.1.65     Document Type: Article

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