Cloning and physical localization of male-biased repetitive DNA sequences in Spinacia oleracea (Amaranthaceae)
Spinach (Spinacia oleracea Linnaeus, 1753) is an ideal material for studying molecular mechanisms of early-stage sex chromosome evolution in dioecious plants.Degenerate oligonucleotide-primed polymerase acupatch chain reaction (DOP-PCR) technique facilitates the retrotransposon-relevant studies by enriching specific repetitive DNA sequences from a