B chromosomes are extra chromosomes to the standard complement that occur in many
organisms. They can originate in a number of ways including derivation from autosomes and …

Publisher Summary On a worldwide basis, plant breeding has been one of the most
successful technologies developed in modern agriculture: its methods are opportunistic and …

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Study of the maize (Zea mays L.) somatic chromosomes (2 n= 20) has been difficult because
of a lack of distinguishing characteristics. To identify all maize chromosomes, a multicolor …

The centromere of eukaryotic chromosomes is essential for the faithful segregation and
inheritance of genetic information. In the majority of eukaryotic species, centromeres are …

Centromeric H3-like histones, which replace histone H3 in the centromeric chromatin of
animals and fungi, have not been reported in plants. We identified a histone H3 variant from …

Maize centromeres are composed of CentC tandem repeat arrays, centromeric
retrotransposons (CRs), and a variety of other repeats. One particularly well-conserved CR …

Somatic chromosome spreads from maize (Zea mays L.) plants containing BA translocation
chromosomes undergoing the chromosome type breakage–fusion–bridge cycle were …

Although plants were the organisms of choice in several classical centromere studies,
molecular and biochemical studies of plant centromeres have lagged behind those in model …

A set of oat–maize chromosome addition lines with individual maize (Zea mays L.)
chromosomes present in plants with a complete oat (Avena sativa L.) chromosome …