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. 1980 Oct;66(4):572–575. doi: 10.1104/pp.66.4.572

Isolation and Characterization of Chloroplast DNA from the Duckweed Spirodela oligorrhiza

Jan H van Ee 1, Willem A Man In'T Veld 1, Rudi J Planta 1
PMCID: PMC440680  PMID: 16661479

Abstract

Chloroplast DNA of the duckweed Spirodela oligorrhiza, isolated by CsCl gradient centrifugation, was characterized by its buoyant density, guanine + cytosine content, melting behavior, circularity, and contour length. In all these characteristics, chloroplast DNA of S. oligorrhiza is similar to the chloroplast genomes of other higher plants, except that it has a significantly larger size.

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