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. 1978 Dec;62(6):975-7.
doi: 10.1104/pp.62.6.975.

Distinction between Nuclear Satellite DNAs and Chloroplast DNA in Higher Plants

M J Pascoe  1 , J Ingle
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Distinction between Nuclear Satellite DNAs and Chloroplast DNA in Higher Plants

M J Pascoe et al. Plant Physiol. 1978 Dec.

Abstract

Triton X-100 solubilized chloroplast DNA but not nuclear DNA from a mixture of chloroplasts and nuclei. The buoyant density of chloroplast DNA was different from that of the satellite DNA in all of the species examined (Phaseolus coccineus, Cucumis sativus, Cucumis melo, Antirrhinum majus, Vicia faba, Oenothera fruiticosa youngii). Chloroplast DNA constituted between 4.3% and 0.25% of the total leaf DNA in these species, and was present as 5 to 20 copies in each chloroplast.

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