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Mitochondrial DNAs (mtDNAs) were isolated and purified from ten strains of rice plants with male-sterile cytoplasm. The mtDNAs were digested with the restriction endonuclease PstI and the fragment patterns produced were analysed by 0.7% agarose gel electrophoresis. Restriction fragment length polymorphism was observed among the mtDNAs analysed; there were seven different patterns for the ten examined. Our results indicate that there are a variety of mtDNAs in cytoplasmically male-sterile rice.
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Kadowaki, K., Osumi, T., Nemoto, H. et al. Mitochondrial DNA polymorphism in male-sterile cytoplasm of rice. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 75, 234–236 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00303958
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