Article
A single base change altered the regulation of the Waxy gene at the posttranscriptional level during the domestication of rice.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Aug 1998
Hirano H Y, Eiguchi M, Sano Y
Abstract excerpt
The rice waxy (wx) locus has two functional alleles, Wxa and Wxb, which are defined by a large difference in the amount of the gene product, called Wx protein, that accumulates in mature seeds. To elucidate the molecular mechanism underlying this difference and to identify the base change causing the alteration of the regulation of the Wx gene during rice evolution, we determined the nucleotide sequences of the...
Topics
- Alleles
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Plant
- Evolution, Molecular
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Genes, Plant
- Introns
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Oryza
- Plant Proteins
- Point Mutation