Isolation and characterization of genomic and transcribed retrotransposon sequences from sorghum

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 271, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 308-316

  Muthukumar, B ^a   Bennetzen, J L ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Retrotransposon; Reverse transcriptase; Transcriptional activation; Transposable element diversity

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CALLUS CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MAIZE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTOPLAST; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SORGHUM;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; PROTOPLASTS; RETROELEMENTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SORGHUM; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

TRANSPOSONS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 2342625900     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-004-0980-1     Document Type: Article

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