Methylated and undermethylated rDNA repeats are interspersed at random in two higher plant species
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Plant Molecular Biology
- Vol. 14 (1) , 73-80
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00015656
Abstract
The organization of methylated rDNA repeats of radish and pea is described and it is shown that methylated repeats and non-methylated repeats are interspersed one with another. Methylated arrays are not much longer than 100 kb, or about 10 repeat units in length.Keywords
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