Evidence for alternative splicing of MADS-box transcripts in developing cotton fibre cells

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 279, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 75-85

  Lightfoot, Damien J ^a   Malone, Katharine M ^a   Timmis, Jeremy N ^a   Orford, Sharon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Cotton fibre; Gene expression; Gossypium hirsutum; MADS box

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE PRODUCT; MADS BOX TRANSCRIPT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTTON; EXON; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; PLANT TISSUE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PLANT; GOSSYPIUM; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 36948999358     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-007-0297-y     Document Type: Article

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