title: Ten years of gene discovery for meiotic event control in rice.
abstract: Meiosis is the crucial process by which sexually propagating eukaryotes give rise to haploid gametes from diploid cells. Several key processes, like homologous chromosomes pairing, synapsis, recombination, and segregation, sequentially take place in meiosis. Although these widely conserved events are under both genetic and epigenetic control, the accurate details of molecular mechanisms are continuing to investigate. Rice is a good model organism for exploring the molecular mechanisms of meiosis in higher plants. So far, 28 rice meiotic genes have been characterized. In this review, we give an overview of the discovery of rice meiotic genes in the last ten years, with a particular focus on their functions in meiosis.
authors.affiliation: College of Plant Protection, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming 650201, China.
authors.forename: Qiong
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
authors.forename: Yafei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China. Electronic address: zkcheng@genetics.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Zhukuan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Cheng
mesh_terms: D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D002503:Centromere / Q000378:metabolism; D002868:Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone / Q000378:metabolism; D017343:Genes, Plant; D008540:Meiosis / Q000235:genetics*; D012275:Oryza / Q000235:genetics*; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D013573:Synaptonemal Complex / Q000378:metabolism; D000097722:Cohesins
chemical_list: D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D002868:Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone; D000097722:Cohesins
keywords: Chromosome pairing; Crossover; Meiosis; Rice; Synapsis