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HEREDITAS ›› 2010, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (12): 1223-1231.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1005.2010.01223

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The pairing, synapsis and recombination of meiosis in plant

LIU Chun-Xia, HE Qun-Yan, JIN Wei-Wei   

  1. National Maize Improvement Center of China, Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and Genome of Ministry of Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
  • Received:2010-04-21 Revised:2010-06-24 Online:2010-12-20 Published:2010-12-20
  • Contact: JIN Wei-Wei E-mail:weiweijin@cau.edu.cn

Abstract: Meiosis is the crucial step for sexual reproduction, while the pairing, synapsis and recombination are the key events in this process and have become the hotspots in meiosis studies. In recent years, with the development of the molecular biology and cell biology, associated with the mutant screened from mutant libraries, much advances were achieved in pairing, synapsis and recombination of meiosis in plant. In this review, we have gave an overview of the genes identification in this field and further studies of its molecular mechanism in plant.

Key words: synapsis, recombination, double-strand break, synaptonemal complex, chiasma