High content, size and distribution of single-stranded DNA in the mitochondria of Chenopodium album (L.)

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1037-1050

  Backert, Steffen ^a   Lurz, Rudi ^b   Oyarzabal, Omar A ^c   Börner, Thomas ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chenopodium album; mitochondrial genome; mitochondrial plasmid; recombination; rolling circle replication; single stranded DNA

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PLANT DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLANT; PLASTID; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PLANT; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLANTS; PLASTIDS;

EID: 0031127988     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005791310886     Document Type: Article

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