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A separation-of-function ZIP4 wheat mutant allows crossover between related chromosomes and is meiotically stable.
Scientific reports - 8 Nov 2021
Martín Azahara C, Alabdullah Abdul Kader, Moore Graham
Abstract excerpt
Many species, including most flowering plants, are polyploid, possessing multiple genomes. During polyploidisation, fertility is preserved via the evolution of mechanisms to control the behaviour of these multiple genomes during meiosis. On the polyploidisation of wheat, the major meiotic gene ZIP4 duplicated and diverged, with the resulting new gene TaZIP4-B2 being inserted into chromosome 5B. Previous studies...
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