Fluorescent Arabidopsis tetrads: A visual assay for quickly developing large crossover and crossover interference data sets

Nature Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 41-50

  Berchowitz, Luke E ^a   Copenhaver, Gregory P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CROSSING OVER; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE INSERTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; POLLEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE; WILD TYPE;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CROSSES, GENETIC; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; GENETIC MARKERS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLLEN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 38149133833     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.491     Document Type: Article

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