The Arabidopsis male meiocyte death(1) gene encodes a PHD-finger protein that is required for male meiosis

From: Plant Cell | Date: June 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

In plants, reproductive development requires normal meiosis, which involved several highly coordinated events. Such meiotic events are regulated in a number of ways in yeast and animal systems, including transcriptional and checkpoint control mechanisms. Although a number of mutations that affect different aspects of meiosis have been characterized in plants, very little is known about the regulation of plant meiosis at the molecular level. In particular, no meiosis-specific transcriptional regulators have been identified in plants, and checkpoint control has not been observed during plant ...

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