Ten Years of Gene Discovery for Meiotic Event Control in Rice

Journal of Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 125-137

  Luo, Qiong ^a   Li, Yafei ^b   Shen, Yi ^b   Cheng, Zhukuan ^b  

^a YUNNAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Chromosome pairing; Crossover; Meiosis; Rice; Synapsis

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENETICS; REVIEW; RICE;

EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; SYNAPSIS;

CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CROSSOVER; MEIOSIS; RICE; SYNAPSIS;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; GENES, PLANT; MEIOSIS; ORYZA SATIVA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

EID: 84896317708     PISSN: 16738527     EISSN: 18735533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jgg.2014.02.002     Document Type: Review

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