A starch-branching enzyme gene in wheat produces alternatively spliced transcripts

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1019-1030

  Båga, Monica ^a   Glaze, Sarah ^a   Mallard, Clifford S ^a   Chibbar, Ravindra N ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Starch biosynthesis; Starch branching enzyme; Transit peptide; Wheat

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; INTRON; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PLANT GENETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STARCH BRANCHING ENZYME; WHEAT;

1,4-ALPHA-GLUCAN BRANCHING ENZYME; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PLANT; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PLANT; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRITICUM; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0042080308     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006286807176     Document Type: Article

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