Plant Centromere Biology
The centromere is the chromosomal domain that is vital to the transmission and segregation of genetic materials in plants and animals. The structure and evolution of the centromere has been a mystery for decades due to its complexity of the molecular make-up. Plant Centromere Biology provides a clear and concise picture of the role of centromere biology in plant evolution, developmental processes, and biotechnology.

Plant Centromere Biology is made up of fourteen chapters that cover both classical and modern centromere research in several plant species. The centromere of model plant organisms, such as Arabidopsis, and agronomic crops, such as rice and maze, are explored to illustrate the diverse role of the centromere in plant development. New approaches and technologies continuously being applied to centromere research are fully reviewed in the text. Centromere biology has also opened the door to new advances in plant biotechnology and the volume concludes with chapters that look at the development of the latest centromere-related biotechnological accomplishments.

A timely and important collection, Plant Centromere Biology will be a vitally important book for plant scientists, biotechnologists, and advanced students with an interest in centromere biology.
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Plant Centromere Biology
The centromere is the chromosomal domain that is vital to the transmission and segregation of genetic materials in plants and animals. The structure and evolution of the centromere has been a mystery for decades due to its complexity of the molecular make-up. Plant Centromere Biology provides a clear and concise picture of the role of centromere biology in plant evolution, developmental processes, and biotechnology.

Plant Centromere Biology is made up of fourteen chapters that cover both classical and modern centromere research in several plant species. The centromere of model plant organisms, such as Arabidopsis, and agronomic crops, such as rice and maze, are explored to illustrate the diverse role of the centromere in plant development. New approaches and technologies continuously being applied to centromere research are fully reviewed in the text. Centromere biology has also opened the door to new advances in plant biotechnology and the volume concludes with chapters that look at the development of the latest centromere-related biotechnological accomplishments.

A timely and important collection, Plant Centromere Biology will be a vitally important book for plant scientists, biotechnologists, and advanced students with an interest in centromere biology.
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Plant Centromere Biology

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The centromere is the chromosomal domain that is vital to the transmission and segregation of genetic materials in plants and animals. The structure and evolution of the centromere has been a mystery for decades due to its complexity of the molecular make-up. Plant Centromere Biology provides a clear and concise picture of the role of centromere biology in plant evolution, developmental processes, and biotechnology.

Plant Centromere Biology is made up of fourteen chapters that cover both classical and modern centromere research in several plant species. The centromere of model plant organisms, such as Arabidopsis, and agronomic crops, such as rice and maze, are explored to illustrate the diverse role of the centromere in plant development. New approaches and technologies continuously being applied to centromere research are fully reviewed in the text. Centromere biology has also opened the door to new advances in plant biotechnology and the volume concludes with chapters that look at the development of the latest centromere-related biotechnological accomplishments.

A timely and important collection, Plant Centromere Biology will be a vitally important book for plant scientists, biotechnologists, and advanced students with an interest in centromere biology.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781118525555
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 01/23/2013
Sold by: JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format: eBook
Pages: 208
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Jiming Jiang is a Professor of Horticulture at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research focuses on plant molecular cytogenetics, plant centromeres, potato breeding and genomics. In addition to his research activities Dr. Jiang also teaches a course on introductory cytogenetics, and he is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

James A. Birchler is Curators Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His lab studies gene expression in multicellular eukaryotes at the gene and chromosomal level, using maize and Drosophila as experimental organisms. Dr. Birchler has published widely in such journals as The New Phytologist, The Plant Cell, and Genes and Chromatin, and he is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Table of Contents

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 in Centromeres of Beta Species 39
Falk Zakrzewski, Beatrice Weber, and Thomas Schmidt

Chapter 5 Centromere Synteny among Brachypodium, Wheat, and Rice 57
Lili Qi, Bernd Friebe, and Bikram S. Gill

Chapter 6 CENH3 for Establishing and Maintaining Centromeres 67
Inna Lermontova and Ingo Schubert

Chapter 7 Holokinetic Centromeres 83
Stefan Heckmann and Andreas Houben

Chapter 8 Is the Heterochromatin of Meiotic Neocentromeres a Remnant 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 Monkeyflowers: Insight into the 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 Plants 169
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

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