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Diversity of the Arabidopsis mitochondrial genome occurs via nuclear-controlled recombination activity.
Genetics - 1 Dec 2009
Arrieta-Montiel Maria P, Shedge Vikas, Davila Jaime, Christensen Alan C, Mackenzie Sally A
Abstract excerpt
The plant mitochondrial genome is recombinogenic, with DNA exchange activity controlled to a large extent by nuclear gene products. One nuclear gene, MSH1, appears to participate in suppressing recombination in Arabidopsis at every repeated sequence ranging in size from 108 to 556 bp. Present in a wide range of plant species, these mitochondrial repeats display evidence of successful asymmetric DNA exchange in...
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