Article
Maize AMEIOTIC1 is essential for multiple early meiotic processes and likely required for the initiation of meiosis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 3 Mar 2009
Pawlowski Wojciech P, Wang Chung-Ju Rachel, Golubovskaya Inna N, Szymaniak Jessica M, Shi Liang, Hamant Olivier, Zhu Tong, Harper Lisa, Sheridan William F, Cande W Zacheus
Abstract excerpt
Molecular mechanisms that initiate meiosis have been studied in fungi and mammals, but little is known about the mechanisms directing the meiosis transition in other organisms. To elucidate meiosis initiation in plants, we characterized and cloned the ameiotic1 (am1) gene, which affects the transition to meiosis and progression through the early stages of meiotic prophase in maize. We demonstrate that all meiotic...
Topics
- Alleles
- Chromosomes
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Meiosis
- Miotics
- Mutation
- Phylogeny
- Plant Proteins
- Telomere
- Zea mays