On the role of AtDMC1, AtRAD51 and its paralogs during Arabidopsis meiosis

M Pradillo, J Varas, C Oliver, JL Santos - Frontiers in plant science, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Meiotic recombination plays a critical role in achieving accurate chromosome segregation
and increasing genetic diversity. Many studies, mostly in yeast, have provided important …

DMC1 stabilizes crossovers at high and low temperatures during wheat meiosis

TN Draeger, MD Rey, S Hayta, M Smedley… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Effective chromosome synapsis and crossover formation during meiosis are essential for
fertility, especially in grain crops such as wheat. These processes function most efficiently in …

Dmc1 is a candidate for temperature tolerance during wheat meiosis

T Draeger, AC Martin, AK Alabdullah, A Pendle… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2020 - Springer
Key message The meiotic recombination gene Dmc1 on wheat chromosome 5D has been
identified as a candidate for the maintenance of normal chromosome synapsis and …

SPO11.2 is essential for programmed double‐strand break formation during meiosis in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

F Benyahya, I Nadaud, O Da Ines, H Rimbert… - The Plant …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Meiotic recombination is initiated by formation of DNA double‐strand breaks (DSBs). This
involves a protein complex that includes in plants the two similar proteins, SPO11‐1 and …

Recognition and repair pathways of damaged DNA in higher plants

S Biedermann, S Mooney… - Selected topics in DNA …, 2011 - books.google.com
Living organisms are continuously exposed to factors that threaten the integrity of their cells.
This includes structural and enzymatic components like lipids or proteins, but also their …

A co-expression network in hexaploid wheat reveals mostly balanced expression and lack of significant gene loss of homeologous meiotic genes upon …

AK Alabdullah, P Borrill, AC Martin… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Polyploidization has played an important role in plant evolution. However, upon
polyploidization, the process of meiosis must adapt to ensure the proper segregation of …

Generation of Asynaptic Mutants in Potato by Disrupting StDMC1 Gene Using RNA Interference Approach

A Kumar, S Siddappa, V Bhardwaj, Dalamu, B Singh… - Life, 2023 - mdpi.com
Fixing the genomic composition and multiplication through true potato seed (TPS) is an
important challenge in autotetraploid potato. Disrupted meiotic cDNA (DMC1) is a meiotic …

Morphotype transition and sexual reproduction are genetically associated in a ubiquitous environmental pathogen

L Wang, X Tian, R Gyawali, S Upadhyay, D Foyle… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Sexual reproduction in an environmental pathogen helps maximize its lineage fitness to
changing environment and the host. For the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans …

Bread wheat TaSPO11‐1 exhibits evolutionarily conserved function in meiotic recombination across distant plant species

O Da Ines, R Michard, I Fayos, G Bastianelli… - The Plant …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The manipulation of meiotic recombination in crops is essential to develop new plant
varieties rapidly, helping to produce more cultivars in a sustainable manner. One option is to …

desynaptic5 carries a spontaneous semi-dominant mutation affecting Disrupted Meiotic cDNA 1 in barley

I Colas, A Barakate, M Macaulay… - Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Despite conservation of the process of meiosis, recombination landscapes vary between
species, with large genome grasses such as barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) exhibiting a …