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Isolation and Analysis of Multiple Tomato psubunit Genomic Clones and Related cDNAs from Arabidopsis. 

Analysis of the genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature 2000 408[6814] 796—815. 

Rice is the most important staple food crop in the world and has also emerged as the model cereal species (it is the only terrestrial plant other than Arabidopsis thaliana to benefit from a completed genome sequence, and extensive EST resources are also available). Rice has a lower annual grain yield than maize (6600 kg ha-1) and the grain has a lower protein content (8%), but like maize it is easy to transform and manipulate in the laboratory, a range of useful expression cassettes have been devel-... 

The MTHFRs of Arabidopsis and maize have recently been cloned by genomics-based approaches, based on homology with the enzymes from other organisms.17 Like mammalian MTHFRs, the plant enzymes were found to be homodimers of two-domain subunits that are homologous to the mammalian enzymes throughout both domains. However, when the recombinant plant proteins were expressed in yeast, they were found to differ radically from the mammalian MTHFRs in both their pyridine nucleotide preference and their regulatory properties plant enzymes prefer NADH to NADPH, and they are insensitive to AdoMet.17... 

SHIRLEY, B.W., HANLEY, S., GOODMAN, H.M., Effects of ionizing radiation on a plant genome analysis of two Arabidopsis transparent testa mutations, Plant Cell, 1992, 4, 333-347. 

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