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Electrophoretic examination of allozymes from 189Camellia japonica cultivars revealed some banding patterns not explainable by codominant diploid genetics. At several loci encoding dimeric enzymes, 5 and 6 banded patterns were observed in 7 cultivars. These patterns are interpreted as resulting from triploidy or aneuploidy, where three variant alleles code for products which are electrophoretically distinguishable and associate to form three homodimers and three heterodimers. The presence of allozyme multiplicity in these clones suggests a sexual rather than a somatic mode of triploid origin.
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Wendel, J.F. Electrophoretic identification of polyploidCamellia japonica (Theaceae) cultivars and evidence for their sexual origin. Pl Syst Evol 145, 223–226 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00983950
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00983950