Publications by authors named "Richard P Westerman"
Seven novel alleles of SBEIIb and one allele of SSIIa co-segregated with the ASV phenotype and contributed to distinct starch quality traits important for food-processing applications. Sorghum is an important food crop for millions of people in Africa and Asia. Whole-genome re-sequencing of sorghum EMS mutants exhibiting an alkali spreading value (ASV) phenotype revealed candidate SNPs in Sobic.
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- * The mgtCBR mRNA's 5' leader contains short open reading frames (mgtM and mgtP) that control the operon's expression through a method similar to attenuation in amino acid biosynthesis.
- * Mutations in mgtM lead to increased transcription levels, and while high expression of the mgtC gene is crucial for thermotolerance, the mgtB and mgtR genes are not necessary for this process.
Recent comprehensive sequence analysis of the maize genome now permits detailed discovery and description of all transposable elements (TEs) in this complex nuclear environment. Reiteratively optimized structural and homology criteria were used in the computer-assisted search for retroelements, TEs that transpose by reverse transcription of an RNA intermediate, with the final results verified by manual inspection. Retroelements were found to occupy the majority (>75%) of the nuclear genome in maize inbred B73.
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