Sequence, regulation, and evolution of the maize 22-kD alpha zein gene family.

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Published in Genome Res on November 01, 2001

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R Song1, V Llaca, E Linton, J Messing

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1: Waksman Institute, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.

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