Expansion of the IR in the chloroplast genomes of buckwheat species is due to incorporation of an SSC sequence that could be mediated by an inversion

Current Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 276-279

  Aii, Jotaro ^a   Kishima, Yuji ^b   Mikami, Tetsuo ^b   Adachi, Taiji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Buckwheat; Chloroplast DNA; Inversion; Inverted repeats

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; GENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOBACCO; WHEAT;

CEREALS; CHLOROPLASTS; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EMBRYOPHYTA; EPIFAGUS VIRGINIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0030915387     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050206     Document Type: Article

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