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A naturally occurring functional allele of the rice waxy locus has a GT to TT mutation at the 5' splice site of the first intron.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Jul 1998
Isshiki M, Morino K, Nakajima M, Okagaki R J, Wessler S R, Izawa T, Shimamoto K
Abstract excerpt
In cultivated rice two wild-type alleles, Wxa and Wxb, predominate at the waxy locus, which encodes granule-bound starch synthase. The activity of Wxa is 10-fold higher than that of Wxb at the level of both protein and mRNA. Wxb has a +1G to T mutation at the 5' splice site of the first intron. Sequence analysis of Wxb transcripts revealed that splicing occurs at the mutant AG/UU site and at two cryptic sites:...
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