Transcript accumulation and utilization of alternate and non-consensus splice sites in rice granule-bound starch synthase are temperature-sensitive and controlled by a single-nucleotide polymorphism

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 719-727

  Larkin, Patrick D ^a   Park, William D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amylose; Splicing; Starch synthase; Temperature; Waxy

Indexed keywords

CULTIVAR; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENETICS; RICE; STARCH SYNTHASE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMYLOSE; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; STARCH SYNTHASE; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 0033167289     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006298608408     Document Type: Article

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