A splice site mutant of maize activates cryptic splice sites, elicits intron inclusion and exon exclusion, and permits branch point elucidation

Plant Physiology

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 411-418

  Lal, Shailesh ^a   Choi, Jae Hyuk ^a   Shaw, Janine R ^a   Hannah, L Curtis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXON; INTRON; MESSENGER RNA; MUTANT; MUTATION; PLANT GENETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0033213695     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.121.2.411     Document Type: Article

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