Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology
  • Year: 1996
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 2

Diurnal Fluctuations in Steady-State mRNAs of Certain Chloroplast-Encoded Photosynthesis-Related Genes in Rice

  • Author:
  • M Grover, S C Maheshwari, A K Tyagi
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 105 to 107

Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi 110 021, India

* Corresponding author.

Abstract

Existence of diurnal fluctuations at steady-state transcript level has been found for chloroplast-encoded genes psbA, psaA and rbcL in rice. Transcript levels are low in the morning, high in the noon and show a decline in the evening. The rhythm shows dampening with advancing age.

Keywords

diurnal, Oryza sativa, transcripts