Meiosis is the cell division that reshuffles genetic information between generations.
Recently, much progress has been made in understanding this process; in particular, the …

Meiosis is a specialized cell division, essential in most reproducing organisms to halve the
number of chromosomes, thereby enabling the restoration of ploidy levels during …

Meiotic crossovers (COs) have intriguing patterning properties, including CO interference,
the tendency of COs to be well-spaced along chromosomes, and heterochiasmy, the marked …

The synaptonemal complex is a tripartite proteinaceous ultrastructure that forms between
homologous chromosomes during prophase I of meiosis in the majority of eukaryotes. It is …

Previous studies revealed that the promoters for driving both Cas9 and sg RNA s are quite
important for efficient genome editing by CRISPR/Cas9 in plants. Here, we report our results …

Polyploidy, which arises from genome duplication, has occurred throughout the history of
eukaryotes, though it is especially common in plants. The resulting increased size …

Through recombination, genes are freed to evolve more independently of one another,
unleashing genetic variance hidden in the linkage disequilibrium that accumulates through …

Barley (H ordeum vulgare) is a crop of global significance. However, a third of the genes of
barley are largely inaccessible to conventional breeding programmes as crossovers are …

Meiotic chromosomes are organized into linear looped chromatin arrays by a protein axis
localized along the loop-bases. Programmed remodelling of the axis occurs during …

The reshuffling of existing genetic variation during meiosis is important both during evolution
and in breeding. The reassortment of genetic variants relies on the formation of crossovers …