Article
Cytoplasmic male sterility in beta is associated with structural rearrangements of the mitochondrial DNA and is not due to interspecific organelle transfer.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Nov 1990
Halldén C, Lind C, Säll T, Bosemark N O, Bengtsson B O
Abstract excerpt
Chloroplast (ct) and mitochondrial (mt) DNAs from four cytoplasmic male sterile (cms) and 22 normal fertile sugar beet lines and accessions of wild beets from the genus Beta have been compared with restriction analyses and Southern hybridizations. We have used restriction analyses of ctDNA as a phylogenetic marker to confirm the taxonomic relationships between the different cytoplasms. According to the ctDNA...
Topics
- Chloroplasts
- Cytoplasm
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Genetic Variation
- Infertility
- Phylogeny
- Plants
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length