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A mitochondrial mutator system in maize.
Plant physiology - 1 Feb 2005
Kuzmin Evgeny V, Duvick Donald N, Newton Kathleen J
Abstract excerpt
The P2 line of maize (Zea mays) is characterized by mitochondrial genome destabilization, initiated by recessive nuclear mutations. These alleles alter copy number control of mitochondrial subgenomes and disrupt normal transfer of mitochondrial genomic components to progeny, resulting in differences in mitochondrial DNA profiles among sibling plants and between parents and progeny. The mitochondrial DNA changes...
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