The DIF1 gene of Arabidopsis is required for meiotic chromosome segregation and belongs to the REC8/RAD21 cohesin gene family

Plant Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 463-472

  Bhatt, Anuj M ^a,b   Lister, Clare ^a   Page, Tania ^a,d   Fransz, Paul ^c,e   Findlay, Kim ^a   Jones, Gareth H ^c   Dickinson, Hugh G ^b   Dean, Caroline ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; COHESIN; MITOSIS; MUTAGENESIS; PLANT GENETICS; POLLEN MOTHER CELL; SISTER CHROMATID; TRANSPOSON;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FERTILITY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, PLANT; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT COMPONENTS; PLANT PROTEINS; POLLEN; RNA, MESSENGER; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0033179914     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1999.00548.x     Document Type: Article

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