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Plant mitochondrial mutations and male sterility.
Annual review of genetics - 1 Jan 1991
Hanson M R
Abstract excerpt
A characteristic of CMS mutations in plants, in contrast to the single base changes in human mitochondrial mutants (49, 140), is the presence of chimeric genes or chimeric loci; different open reading frames are joined together, or placed in proximal locations and cotranscribed with standard mitochondrial genes. Despite much progress, and the identification of several mitochondrial loci that specify CMS, the...
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