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Mobile plastid genes

Nature volume 422, pages 31–32 (2003)Cite this article

The direct demonstration that chloroplast DNA can be incorporated into the nuclear genome of plants, even though it is unlikely that such DNA would be functional, will influence thinking in plant biotechnology.

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Figure 1: Transfer of plastid DNA to the nucleus of a tobacco cell, as studied by Timmis and colleagues1.

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