Abstract
The 1913-bp maize mitochondrial (mt) plasmid was isolated from a suspension culture of a Black Mexican Sweet maize strain, cloned into M13mp vectors, and sequenced by a unidirectional progressive deletion method. The 1.9-kb extrachromosomal double-stranded circular DNA plasmid was found to contain regions of sequence which in other systems are known to be part of origins of replication (ori). This plasmid could be used as a carrier for chimeric genes and a molecular probe for replication.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 131-138 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Gene |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue number | 1-3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1985 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We wouldl ike to thankK ris Kohn and Stephanie Young for their help in preparingt he manuscript, also MichaelZ arowitz,P eterW einsteina, ndA rthur Weissingerfo r their helpfuld iscussionsT. his work was supportedb y NIH grantN o. GM3 1499to J.M., while R.F.P. is a recipiento f a NSF postdoctoral fellowship in plant molecular biology (PCM-831 2545)a, ndJ .V. is supportedb y theN IH training grantN o. ST32GM107094.
Keywords
- Cloning vector
- gene transfer
- molecular probe
- plasmid
- recombinant DNA