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Loss or retention of chloroplast DNA in maize seedlings is affected by both light and genotype.
Planta - 1 Dec 2006
Oldenburg Delene J, Rowan Beth A, Zhao Lei, Walcher Cristina L, Schleh Marc, Bendich Arnold J
Abstract excerpt
We examined the chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) from plastids obtained from wild type maize (Zea mays L.) seedlings grown under different light conditions and from photosynthetic mutants grown under white light. The cpDNA was evaluated by real-time quantitative PCR, quantitative DNA fluorescence, and blot-hybridization following pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. The amount of DNA per plastid in light-grown seedlings...
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