Article
Alternative splicing induced by insertion of retrotransposons into the maize waxy gene.
The Plant cell - 1 Jul 1992
Varagona M J, Purugganan M, Wessler S R
Abstract excerpt
The molecular basis for the low level expression of three alleles of the maize waxy (Wx) gene has been described. Each allele contains a retrotransposon in intron sequences. These insertions represent previously undescribed elements, and their association with three wx alleles indicates that retrotransposon elements are important agents of spontaneous mutation in maize. For each allele, element sequences are...
Topics
- Alternative Splicing
- Base Sequence
- DNA
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Exons
- Genes, Plant
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Plant Proteins
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Starch Synthase
- Zea mays