GC Content in Plant Genomes

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Authors	BUREŠ Petr ŠMARDA Petr HRALOVÁ Ivana FUNES-SORIANO Sara LYSÁK Martin ŘEPKA Radomír HELÁNOVÁ Klára ROTREKLOVÁ Olga PROCHÁZKOVÁ Jana ÚRADNÍČEK Luboš KŮROVÁ Jana
Year of publication	2007
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	Analytical Cytometry IV
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Field	Botany
Keywords	Genome size; base composition; Carex; Eleocharis; Festuca; Apiaceae; Brassicaceae; Epilobium; Salix
Description	GC base pair content is an important character in the description of new taxa of prokaryotes, but its role in plant systematics and evolution is still poorly understood. Using flow cytometry methods (FCM) with PI and DAPI, we estimated base composition in Apiaceae (16 spp.), Brassicaceae (30 spp.), Cyperaceae (135 spp.), Onagraceae (15 spp.), Poaceae (132 spp.) and Salicaceae (20 spp.), and found a significant positive correlation between GC content and genome size.
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