An Arabidopsis gene encoding a C2H2-domain protein with alternatively spliced transcripts is essential for endosperm development

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 63, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 5935-5944

  Lu, Xiaoduo ^a,b   Li, Yuan ^c   Su, Yanping ^c   Liang, Qiuju ^b,d   Meng, Hongyan ^d   Li, Sha ^e   Shen, Songdong ^c   Fan, Yunliu ^b,d   Zhang, Chunyi ^b,d  

^a Qilu Normal University   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement (NFCRI)   (China)

^e LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Arabidopsis thaliana; C2H2; embryo lethal; endosperm development; nuclear division.

Indexed keywords

ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENDOSPERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ENDOSPERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 84867559398     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ers243     Document Type: Article

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