To check or not to check? The application of meiotic studies to plant breeding.
Understanding the barriers that prevent pairing and recombination of the chromosomes from two parental species is important for crop improvement strategies. It had been generally thought that plants do not possess checkpoint mechanisms during meiosis. However, recent data may question this assumption and suggest that exploitation of such mechanisms could be crucial to breeding.
Martinez-Perez
Enrique
E
Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK. E.Martinez-Perez@Sheffield.ac.uk
Moore
Graham
G
D001947:Breeding; D008540:Meiosis / Q000235:genetics*; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics*; D011995:Recombination, Genetic / Q000235:genetics