T-DNA insertion mutants reveal complex expression patterns of the aldehyde dehydrogenase 3H1 locus in Arabidopsis thaliana

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3885-3898

  Missihoun, Tagnon D ^a   Kirch, Hans Hubert ^a   Bartels, Dorothea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

abiotic stress; alternative first exon; alternative promoter; alternative splicing; nonsense mediated mRNA decay

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BACTERIAL DNA; T DNA; T-DNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION;

ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 84863658981     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ers081     Document Type: Article

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