Polyadenylation occurs at multiple sites in maize mitochondrial cox2 mRNA and is independent of editing status

Plant Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1565-1577

  Lupold, Shelley D ^a,b   Caoile, Angelina G F S ^b   Stern, David B ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST; MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; PLANT GENETICS; POLYADENYLATION;

ANIMALIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; TRACHEOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0345580792     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.11.8.1565     Document Type: Article

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