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dull: rice mutants with tissue-specific effects on the splicing of the waxy pre-mRNA.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Aug 2000
Isshiki M, Nakajima M, Satoh H, Shimamoto K
Abstract excerpt
In the endosperm of japonica rice, du-1 and du-2 mutations cause the reduction of amylose contents. It was previously shown that the Wx(b) allele of rice, which is predominantly distributed in japonica rice, has a mutation in the 5' splice site of intron 1 resulting in the creation of two weak 5' splice sites within exon 1. In du-1 and du-2 mutants, spliced Wx(b) transcripts were highly reduced, whereas the...
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