Comparative genomics of chalcone synthase and myb genes in the grass family

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-16

  Oberholzer, Virginia ^a   Durbin, Mary L ^a   Clegg, Michael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHALCONE SYNTHASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GRASS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MYB; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; POACEAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA; POACEAE; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 0034143561     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.75.1     Document Type: Article

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