Article
The desynaptic mutant of maize as a combined defect of synaptonemal complex and chiasma maintenance.
Genome - 1 Dec 1991
Maguire M P, Paredes A M, Riess R W
Abstract excerpt
The phenotype of the desynaptic (dy) mutant of maize in microsporocytes at meiotic prophase was compared with normal microsporocytes of a closely related strain and with microsporocytes of a maize inbred line (KYS) assumed to be normal. Strikingly more univalents and open arms of bivalents were found in the mutant cells than in normal cells at diakinesis, and where there was heterozygosity for a distal knob...
Topics
- Microscopy, Electron
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Synaptonemal Complex
- Zea mays