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Plastid DNA of the light green Oenothera plastome mutant sigma, from plastome I, which is deficient in ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase, has been compared with wild-type chloroplast DNA from plastome I and the related plastome IV. For this, double digestions with the restriction endonucleases Sal I, Pst I and Kpn I were used. Chloroplast DNA from plastomes I and IV differs in the sizes of several fragments, with the changes being from under 0.1 to about 0.6 Md in size. In the cleavage patterns of the mutant DNA compared to the wild-type DNA from plastome I, the only differences observed are two possible deletions of less than 0.1 Md from a fragment known to partly cover the genes for the ribosomal RNAs and from a fragment located in the small single-copy region of the molecule. It is concluded that the ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase deficiency in this mutant is not caused by a major deletion in the plastid DNA.
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Gordon, K.H.J., Hildebrandt, J.W., Bohnert, H.J. et al. Analysis of the plastid DNA in an Oenothera plastome mutant deficient in ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 57, 203–207 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00264671
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