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The methylation patterns of two flax lines are described. One, a genotroph S1, has 800 rNA genes per haploid cell while FT37/1, a crown gall tumour incited on S1, has only 300. Using the enzymes EcoRII, BstNI and ApyI to assess CXG methylation and HpaII and MspI for CG, we show that the methylation patterns of the rDNAs of both lines are identical. Both lines contain 3 fractions; the first contains repeats that are methylated at all sites examined and the second has some unmethylated sites. The third fraction contains repeats that are fully methylated but contain a discrete hypomethylated site at the 5′ end of the pre-rRNA. The number of repeats which show these hypomethylated sites is constant in both lines despite the copy number difference. These may represent the active rRNA gene repeats.
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Blundy, K.S., Cullis, C.A. & Hepburn, A.G. Ribosomal DNA methylation in a flax genotroph and a crown gall tumour. Plant Mol Biol 8, 217–225 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00015030
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