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Barley telomeres shorten during differentiation but grow in callus culture.
10 Oct 1995
Abstract excerpt
Eukaryotic chromosomes terminate with long stretches of short, guanine-rich repeats. These repeats are added de novo by a specialized enzyme, telomerase. In humans telomeres shorten during differentiation, presumably due to the absence of telomerase activity in somatic cells. This phenomenon forms the basis for several models of telomere role in cellular senescence. Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) telomeres consist...
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