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EMPTY PERICARP16 is required for mitochondrial nad2 intron 4 cis-splicing, complex I assembly and seed development in maize.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Feb 2016
Xiu Zhihui, Sun Feng, Shen Yun, Zhang Xiaoyan, Jiang Ruicheng, Bonnard Géraldine, Zhang Jianhua, Tan Bao-Cai
Abstract excerpt
In higher plants, chloroplast and mitochondrial transcripts contain a number of group II introns that need to be precisely spliced before translation into functional proteins. However, the mechanism of splicing and the factors involved in this process are not well understood. By analysing a seed mutant in maize, we report here the identification of Empty pericarp16 (Emp16) that is required for splicing of nad2...
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