Mx-rMx, a family of interacting transposons in the growing hAT superfamily of maize

Plant Cell

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 375-388

  Xu, Zhennan ^a,b   Dooner, Hugo K ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; GENES; PROTEINS;

GENETIC HISTORY; MAIZE GENOME; TERMINAL INVERTED REPEATS (TIR); TRANSPOSONS;

CROPS;

CORN; GENES; PROTEINS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 27944447300     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.104.027797     Document Type: Article

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