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The repetitive sequence based polymerase chain reaction (rep-PCR) was used to fingerprint the genomes of differentAzospirillum strains. Amplification products were produced using primers based on the repetitive element BOX (BOX-AIR), ERIC (ERIC IR, ERIC 2: Enterobacterial Repetitive Intergenic Consensus) and REP (REP IR, REP 2: Repetitive Extragenic Palindromic). The patterns of the resulting PCR products were analyzed on agarose gels. Band patterns generated with ERIC primers were unique for each strain and may be useful for the identification and classification of Azospirillum strains.
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Mamaril, J.C., Trinidad, L.C. (1998). Use of rep-PCR to fingerprint the genome of Azospirillum spp.. In: Hardarson, G., Broughton, W.J. (eds) Molecular Microbial Ecology of the Soil. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 83. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2321-3_15
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