Maize meiotic mutants with improper or non-homologous synapsis due to problems in pairing or synaptonemal complex formation

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1533-1544

  Golubovskaya, Inna N ^a,b   Wang, C J Rachel ^a   Timofejeva, Ljudmilla ^a,c   Cande, W Zacheus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b N I VAVILOV ALL RUSSIAN INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES   (Russian Federation)

^c TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Desynaptic; homologous chromosomes; maize; meiosis; meiotic mutants; pairing; recombination; synapsis; synaptonemal complex

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; ZYP1A PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ZYP1B PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CROSSING OVER; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; MAIZE; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; SILVER STAINING; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; SILVER STAINING; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; ZEA MAYS;

ARABIDOPSIS; SYNAPSIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79952353620     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erq292     Document Type: Article

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