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Over the past several years, Arabidopsis thaliana has gained increasing popularity as a model system for the study of plant biology. Its short life cycle, small size and large seed output make it well suited for classical genetic analysis (reviewed in Meyerowitz 1987). Mutations have been described affecting a wide range of fundamental developmental and metabolic processes (reviewed in Estelle and Somerville 1986). A genetic linkage map consisting of some 90 loci has been assembled (Koornneef 1987) and an increasing number of cloned genes are available. In addition, Arabidopsis is ideally suited for physical mapping studies since it has a very small genome (approximately 100,000 kb; Hauge and Goodman, unpub. Result) and a remarkably low content of interspersed repetitive DNA (Pruitt and Meyerowitz 1986). The availability of a complete physical map of the Arabidopsis genome will greatly simplify the cloning of any gene based solely on its mutant phenotype and genetic map location. For the map to be of any utility it is necessary to align the physical map with the classical genetic linkage map via an RFLP map.
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Goodman, H.M. et al. (2001). An integrated RFLP map of Arabidopsis thaliana . In: Phillips, R.L., Vasil, I.K. (eds) DNA-Based Markers in Plants. Advances in Cellular and Molecular Biology of Plants, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9815-6_11
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