Functional defect at the rice choline monooxygenase locus from an unusual post-transcriptional processing is associated with the sequence elements of short-direct repeats

New Phytologist

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 439-447

  Luo, Di ^a   Niu, Xiangli ^a   Wang, Yuguo ^b   Zheng, Wenjing ^a   Chang, Lijuan ^a   Wang, Qilin ^a   Wei, Xin ^a   Yu, Guirong ^c   Lu, Bao Rong ^b   Liu, Yongsheng ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Choline monooxygenase; Glycine betaine; Oryza sativa (rice); Short direct repeats

Indexed keywords

BETAINE; CHOLINE MONOOXYGENASE; OXYGENASE; PLANT DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DICOTYLEDON; ENZYME; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICE; TOLERANCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RICE; RNA PROCESSING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPINACH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BETAINE; DNA, PLANT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; OXYGENASES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPINACIA OLERACEA;

ORYZA SATIVA; SPINACIA OLERACEA;

EID: 34447504830     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02124.x     Document Type: Article

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