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.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 267-302 |
| Number of pages | 36 |
| Journal | Annual Review of Plant Biology |
| Volume | 57 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 20 2006 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Physiology
- Molecular Biology
- Plant Science
- Cell Biology