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E.V. Ananiev’s contribution to studies of the centromere and construction of an artificial plant chromosome

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The plant centromere has been described to consist of blocks of repetitive DNA sequences, and self-assembly of an artificial plant chromosome has been achieved using individual cloned elements. E.V. Ananiev’s contribution to these studies is described.

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Original Russian Text © O.N. Danilevskaya, 2010, published in Genetika, 2010, Vol. 46, No. 9, pp. 1214–1216.

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Danilevskaya, O.N. E.V. Ananiev’s contribution to studies of the centromere and construction of an artificial plant chromosome. Russ J Genet 46, 1077–1079 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1022795410090164

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