Abstract
Although rice is one of the most important crops in the world, its molecular biology is less developed compared with other crops. We have overcome the difficulty by mild homogenization of rice tissue, and studied the structure of chloroplast DNA. Chloroplasts are important energy-transducing organelles that contain the entire components necessary for photosynthesis, as well as the expression of their genetic information. Moreover, recent progress in molecular biology has established that many genes important for photosynthesis and the gene expression in chloroplasts are encoded in chloroplast DNA (ctDNA) itself (Shinozaki et al. 1986).
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Hirai, A. (1991). Molecular Structure of Chloroplast DNA from Rice. In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Rice. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83986-3_30
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