Where Maize Diversity Is Located (IMAGE) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Caption This is the overlap of different protein isoforms encoded in six portions of the maize plant. Different isoforms are the product of alternative splicing of messages copied from the plant's total inventory of some 30,000 genes. Credit Ware lab CSHL Usage Restrictions pls give credit License Licensed content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.