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Distinct intraspecific variations of garlic (Allium sativum L.) revealed by the exon-intron sequences of the alliinase gene.
Journal of natural medicines - 1 Apr 2014
Endo Aki, Imai Yukiko, Nakamura Mizuho, Yanagisawa Eri, Taguchi Takaaki, Torii Kosuke, Okumura Hidenobu, Ichinose Koji
Abstract excerpt
Garlic (Allium sativum L.) has been used worldwide as a food and for medicinal purposes since early times. Garlic cultivars exhibit considerable morphological diversity despite the fact that they are mostly sterile and are grown only by vegetative propagation of cloves. Considerable recombination occurs in garlic genomes, including the genes involved in secondary metabolites. We examined the genomic DNAs (gDNAs)...
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