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Organization and mapping of legumin genes in Pisum

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The organization of three classes of legumin gene has been studied by exploiting restriction fragment length polymorphisms. Hybridization of cDNA probes, representing different sub-families of legumin gene, to DNA from F2 and F6 plants from selected crosses showed that there was a tight linkage of individual genes within each of two sub-families. One of these sub-families has been mapped to a locus on chromosome 7 close to r, while the other maps to a locus near a on chromosome 1. The results from one of the crosses analyzed indicated that a third class of legumin gene is also linked to a.

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  1. John Innes Institute, Colney Lane, NR4 7UH, Norwich, Norfolk, England

    Claire Domoney, T. H. Noel Ellis & D. Roy Davies

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Domoney, C., Ellis, T.H.N. & Davies, D.R. Organization and mapping of legumin genes in Pisum . Mol Gen Genet 202, 280–285 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00331651

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