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Isolation of wheat chloroplasts and chloroplast DNA
1The Biotechnology Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|March 23, 2011
Abstract:
Chloroplasts in common with other plastids and mitochondria have their own nucleic material, in the form of multiple copies of a circular DNA molecule, normally of 120-160 kbp.
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