Viruses have contributed to our understanding of cellular processes, and viral vectors have
become indispensable tools in molecular biology. To date, how ever, viral vectors have not …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on nuclear pre-mRNA splicing in plants, with
emphasis on maize. It discusses the salient points of nuclear intron splicing in yeast and …

The promoter region from the rice sucrose synthase-1 gene (RSs1) was fused with coding
sequences for β-glucuronidase (GUS) and snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis) lectin (GNA) …

Acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase (ACCase) catalyzes the formation of malonyl-coenzyme A,
which is used in the plastid for fatty acid synthesis and in the cytosol for several pathways …

A DNA cassette containing the first intron of the maize Shrunken-1 (Sh1) and adjacent exon
sequences stimulates reporter gene expression in maize protoplasts up to 100-fold …

A polyubiquitin-encoding gene was identified from a Nicotiana tabacum genomic library
using a specific probe spanning the 3'untranslated region of the corresponding cDNA. The …

We have isolated a genomic clone encoding a plant NADP+‐dependent malic enzyme
(NADP‐ME). This clone, isolated from bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), covers the entire gene …

Plant introns are generally short (< 200 nt) and AU-rich, and an elevated AU content is
necessary for efficient splicing. Further, an intron in some plant genes enhances gene …

Intron recognition in Angiosperms is hypothesized to require AU-rich motifs within introns. In
this report we examined the role of AU-rich motifs in pre-mRNA processing. AU-rich …

In rice (Oryza sativa L.), cytosolic triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) is encoded by a single
gene. TPI catalyzes a vital step in glycolysis, and RNA blots showed that the tpi gene is …