Genetic control and molecular regulation of temperature-dependent CO plasticity in plant meiosis. KU Leuven
Meiotic recombination forms an essential aspect of plant reproductive development with major relevance for both evolution and crop breeding. Meiosis not only serves to halve the chromosome number, but also aims to reshuffle parental genomes to create novel allelic variability upon which selection can act. Overall, meiotic crossover (CO) designation is strictly controlled by the integrated action of several homeostasis mechanisms, thereby ...