The mismatch repair protein MLH1 marks a subset of strongly interfering crossovers in tomato

Plant Cell

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 862-876

  Lhuissier, Franck G P ^a,b   Offenberg, Hildo H ^a   Wittich, Peter E ^b,d   Vischer, Norbert O E ^c   Heyting, Christa ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b KEYGENE N V   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; FRUITS;

CYTOLOGICAL INTERFERENCE; MEIOTIC PROPHASE;

PROTEINS;

CHROMOSOMES; PROTEINS; TOMATOES;

EUKARYOTA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM;

EID: 34250708059     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.106.049106     Document Type: Article

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