Primary transcripts (precursor-mRNAs) with introns can undergo alternative splicing to
produce multiple transcripts from a single gene by differential use of splice sites, thereby …

This review is based on our recent experience in producing the first commercial recombinant
proteins in transgenic plants. We bring forward the issues that have to be considered in the …

The green fluorescent protein (GFP) from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria is finding wide use
as a genetic marker that can be directly visualized in the living cells of many heterologous …

Alternative splicing (AS) combines different transcript splice junctions that result in
transcripts with shuffled exons, alternative 5′ or 3′ splicing sites, retained introns and …

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 …

Most plant mRNAs are synthesized as precursors containing one or more intervening
sequences (introns) that are removed during the process of splicing. The basic mechanism …

A full‐length cDNA and the corresponding At‐P5S gene encoding the first enzyme of the
proline biosynthetic pathway, the Δ 1‐pyrroline‐5‐carboxylate (P5C) synthetase, were …

The removal of introns from pre-mRNA transcripts and the concomitant ligation of exons is
known as pre-mRNA splicing. It is a fundamental aspect of constitutive eukaryotic gene …

Starch production in all plants examined is altered by mutations of isoamylase-type starch-
debranching enzymes (DBE), although how these proteins affect glucan polymer assembly …

SR proteins are nuclear phosphoproteins with a characteristic Ser/Arg-rich domain and one
or two RNA recognition motifs. They are highly conserved in animals and plants and play …