Plant Centromere Biology (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Jiang, Jiming; Birchler, James A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Plant Centromere Biology is dedicated to plant centromere research. Chapters cover the structure of centromeres from several plant species including Arabidopsis thaliana, rice, maize, wheat and beet, while other sections cover several unique characteristics associated with plant centromeres, including classical and modern neocentromeres, centromere drive and centromere misdivision. Additional chapters are dedicated to epigenetic modification and evolution of plant centromeres, and development and application of plant artificial chromosomes. Written by an international group of experts in the field, Plant Centromere Biology is a valuable handbook for all plant scientists working on plant genome research. Beyond the bench, it can also serve as a helpful reference tool or textbook for upper level college classes on cytogenetics or genome analysis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118525555
• Artikelnr.: 37758677

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Monkeyfl owers:
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