1.
Trends Plant Sci
; 6(6): 246-7, 2001 Jun.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-11378464
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Appl Environ Microbiol
; 63(2): 676-8, 1997 Feb.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-16535520
RESUMO
Spores of vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM) fungi contain thousands of nuclei. In order to understand the karyotic structure of a VAM fungus spore, the genetic variation of the first generation of spores from a VAM fungus (Gigaspora margarita) was examined. Spores originating from both single- and multispore inoculations of the species G. margarita were analyzed by M13 minisatellite-primed PCR. In both cases, different fingerprints were obtained from individual spores with few spores exhibiting similar fingerprints. These results can be explained only by a heterokaryotic status of the nuclear population within a spore.