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Heteroplasmosis in Phytophthora infestans

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PCR and monozoospore plating was used to demonstrate a simultaneous presence of the mitochondria with mitochondrial DNA of haplotypes Ia and IIa in the mycelium of several Phytophthora infestans strains.

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Original Russian Text © S.N. Elansky, D.I. Milyutina, 2007, published in Genetika, 2007, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 333–336.

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Elansky, S.N., Milyutina, D.I. Heteroplasmosis in Phytophthora infestans . Russ J Genet 43, 255–258 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1022795407030052

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