Identification of roots from grass swards using PCR-RFLP and FFLP of the plastid trnL (UAA) intron

BMC Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Ridgway, Karyn P ^a   Duck, Janette M ^a   Peter W Young, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; INTRON; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT ROOT; PLASTID; POACEAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PLANT; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT ROOTS; PLASTIDS; POACEAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 2942729824     PISSN: 14726785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-3-8     Document Type: Article

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