Jiang / Birchler Plant Centromere Biology

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-52555-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, E-Book

Plant Centromere Biology is dedicated to plantcentromere research. Chapters cover the structure of centromeresfrom several plant species including Arabidopsis thaliana, rice,maize, wheat and beet, while other sections cover several uniquecharacteristics associated with plant centromeres, includingclassical and modern neocentromeres, centromere drive andcentromere misdivision. Additional chapters are dedicated toepigenetic modification and evolution of plant centromeres, anddevelopment and application of plant artificialchromosomes.
Written by an international group of experts in the field, PlantCentromere Biology is a valuable handbook for all plantscientists working on plant genome research. Beyond thebench, it can also serve as a helpful reference tool or textbookfor upper level college classes on cytogenetics or genomeanalysis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jiang, Jiming

Birchler, James A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors vii
Preface ix
Chapter 1 Arabidopsis Centromeres 3
Minoru Murata
Chapter 2 Rice Centromeres 15
Jiming Jiang
Chapter 3 Maize Centromeres 25
Gernot Presting
Chapter 4 A Molecular Cytogenetic Analysis of the Structure,Evolution, and Epigenetic Modifi cations of Major DNA Sequences inCentromeres of Beta Species 39
Falk Zakrzewski, Beatrice Weber, and Thomas Schmidt
Chapter 5 Centromere Synteny among Brachypodium, Wheat, and Rice57
Lili Qi, Bernd Friebe, and Bikram S. Gill
Chapter 6 CENH3 for Establishing and Maintaining Centromeres67
Inna Lermontova and Ingo Schubert
Chapter 7 Holokinetic Centromeres 83
Stefan Heckmann and Andreas Houben
Chapter 8 Is the Heterochromatin of Meiotic Neocentromeres aRemnant of the Early Evolution of the Primitive Centromere?95
María J. Puertas and Alfredo Villasante
Chapter 9 Misdivision of Centromeres 111
Adam J. Lukaszewski
Chapter 10 Female Meiotic Drive in Monkeyfl owers: Insight intothe Population Genetics of Selfi sh Centromeres 129
Lila Fishman
Chapter 11 Plant Centromere Epigenetics 147
Ryan N. Douglas and James A. Birchler
Chapter 12 Centromere Evolution 159
Jiming Jiang
Chapter 13 Centromere-Mediated Generation of Haploid Plants169
Maruthachalam Ravi and Simon W.-L. Chan
Chapter 14 Engineered Plant Chromosomes 183
Robert T. Gaeta and James A. Birchler
Index 193
Color plate is located between pages 182 and 183

Über Autor(innen)

Jiming Jiang is a Professor of Horticulture at theUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison. His research focuses on plantmolecular cytogenetics, plant centromeres, potato breeding andgenomics. In addition to his research activities Dr. Jiang alsoteaches a course on introductory cytogenetics, and he is an electedfellow of the American Association for the Advancement ofScience.
James A. Birchler is Curators Professor ofBiological Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His labstudies gene expression in multicellular eukaryotes at the gene andchromosomal level, using maize and Drosophila as experimentalorganisms. Dr. Birchler has published widely in such journals asThe New Phytologist, The Plant Cell, and Genes and Chromatin, andhe is an elected fellow of the American Association for theAdvancement of Science.