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Comparative analysis of mitochondrial genomes between a wheat K-type cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) line and its maintainer line.
BMC genomics - 29 Mar 2011
Liu Huitao, Cui Peng, Zhan Kehui, Lin Qiang, Zhuo Guoyin, Guo Xiaoli, Ding Feng, Yang Wenlong, Liu Dongcheng, Hu Songnian, Yu Jun, Zhang Aimin
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Plant mitochondria, semiautonomous organelles that function as manufacturers of cellular ATP, have their own genome that has a slow rate of evolution and rapid rearrangement. Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS), a common phenotype in higher plants, is closely associated with rearrangements in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), and is widely used to produce F1 hybrid seeds in a variety of valuable crop species....
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