The rice pyruvate decarboxylase 3 gene, which lacks introns, is transcribed in mature pollen

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 55, Issue 394, 2004, Pages 145-146

  Li, Yuhua ^a,b   Ohtsu, Kazuhiro ^a   Nemoto, Keisuke ^c   Tsutsumi, Nobuhiro ^a   Hirai, Atsushi ^a,d   Nakazono, Mikio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NORTHEAST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alcoholic fermentation; Intron less gene; Oryza sativa; Pollen; Pyruvate decarboxylase

Indexed keywords

ENZYMES; FERMENTATION; GENES; RNA;

AEROBIC FERMENTATION; PSEUDOGENES;

CROPS;

PYRUVATE DECARBOXYLASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLLEN; RICE;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; POLLEN; PYRUVATE DECARBOXYLASE;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 0346056752     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erh029     Document Type: Article

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