Replication of Chloroplast DNA of Tobacco
Beverley R. Green 1 and
Milton P. Gordon 1
1 Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle
An experimental method has been designed for determining the relative rates of replication of the chloroplast and nuclear DNA's of Nicotiana tabacum. By this method chloroplast DNA in week-old seedlings is being replicated several times faster than nuclear DNA.