GENETICS OF MEIOTIC PROPHASE I IN PLANTS
- 1 June 2006
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Annual Reviews in Annual Review of Plant Biology
- Vol. 57 (1) , 267-302
- https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.arplant.57.032905.105255
Abstract
During meiotic prophase I, traits are reassorted as a result of a highly organized process involving sister chromatid cohesion, homologous chromosome alignment, pairing, synapsis, and recombination. In the past two years, a number of components involved in this pathway, including Structure Maintenance of Chromosomes (SMC), MRE11, the RAD51 homologs, BRCA2, MSH4, MER3, and ZIP1, have been characterized in plants; in addition, several genes that encode components unique to plants, such as POOR HOMOLOGOUS SYNAPSIS 1 and AMEIOTIC 1, have been cloned. Based on these recent data, essentially from maize and Arabidopsis, we discuss the conserved and plant-specific aspects of meiosis commitment and meiotic prophase I features.This publication has 199 references indexed in Scilit:
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