Detection of DNA ``Fingerprints'' of Cultivated Rice by Hybridization with a Human Minisatellite DNA Probe
Abstract
A human minisatellite DNA probe detects several restriction fragment length polymorphisms in cultivars of Asian and African rice. Certain fragments appear to be inherited in a Mendelian fashion and may represent unlinked loci. The hybridization patterns appear to be cultivar-specific and largely unchanged after the regeneration of plants from tissue culture. The results suggest that these regions of the rice genome may be used to generate cultivar-specific DNA fingerprints. The demonstration of similarity between a human minisatellite sequence and polymorphic regions in the rice genome suggests that such regions also occur in the genomes of many other plant species.
- Publication:
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
- Pub Date:
- September 1988
- DOI:
- 10.1073/pnas.85.18.6831
- Bibcode:
- 1988PNAS...85.6831D