Purification of plastid DNA from an enriched rhodoplast fraction of the red alga Gracilaria tenuistipitata

Plant Molecular Biology Reporter

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 399-406

  Hagopian, Jonathan C ^a   Nyvall, Pi ^b   De Oliveira, Mariana C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Gracilaria tenuistipitata; Plastid DNA purification; Plastid isolation; PtDNA; Red alga; Rhodophyta

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; EUKARYOTA; GRACILARIA; GRACILARIA TENUISTIPITATA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 4544356203     PISSN: 07359640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02772127     Document Type: Article

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