Zm401, a short-open reading-frame mRNA or noncoding RNA, is essential for tapetum and microspore development and can regulate the floret formation in maize

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 136-146

  Ma, Jinxia ^a   Yan, Bingxue ^a   Qu, Yanying ^b   Qin, Fangfang ^a   Yang, Yantao ^a   Hao, Xiujing ^a   Yu, Jingjuan ^a   Zhao, Qian ^a   Zhu, Dengyun ^a   Ao, Guangming ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XINJIANG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anther; Development; Maize; Microspore; Tapetum; zm401

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PLASMID DNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CROSS POLLINATION; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLORET; FLOWERING; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; MAIZE; MICROSCOPE; MICROSPORE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; POLLEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA STRUCTURE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSGENIC PLANT; ZM401 GENE;

FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; ZEA MAYS;

LILIOPSIDA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 51849154682     PISSN: 07302312     EISSN: 10974644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.21807     Document Type: Article

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