Compositional and transcriptional analyses of reduced zein kernels derived from the opaque2 mutation and RNAi suppression

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 569-585

  Frizzi, Alessandra ^a   Caldo, Rico A ^a   Morrell, James A ^a   Wang, Meng ^a   Lutfiyya, Linda L ^a   Brown, Wayne E ^a   Malvar, Thomas M ^a   Huang, Shihshieh ^a  

^a MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

High lysine corn; Opaque2; QPM; Zein; Zein reduction

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; OPAQUE 2 PROTEIN, ZEA MAYS; OPAQUE-2 PROTEIN, ZEA MAYS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; ZEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA MICROARRAY; ENDOSPERM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NORTHERN BLOTTING; REPRODUCIBILITY; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACIDS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDOSPERM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION; ZEA MAYS; ZEIN;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77953215961     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-010-9644-1     Document Type: Article

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