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Identifying Meiotic Mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana

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Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 990))

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Arabidopsis is a very powerful tool for understanding meiosis in plants with genetic approaches. We provide here a simple summary of the techniques used to test if a candidate gene has an essential meiotic function. These protocols require no specific prior knowledge and help eliminate easily avoided mistakes in the attribution of a meiotic function to your favorite gene.

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  1. Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Centre de Versailles-Grignon, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin UMR1318 INRAAgroParisTech, Versailles Cedex, France

    Wayne Crismani & Raphaël Mercier

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  1. , Dept. of Plant Breeding & Genetics, Cornell University, Bradfield Hall 401, Ithaca, 14853, New York, USA

    Wojciech P. Pawlowski

  2. , Centre de Versailles-Grignon, Inst National de la Recherche Agronomiqu, Route de St-Cyr (RD10), Versailles, F-78000, France

    Mathilde Grelon

  3. School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom

    Susan Armstrong

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Crismani, W., Mercier, R. (2013). Identifying Meiotic Mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana . In: Pawlowski, W., Grelon, M., Armstrong, S. (eds) Plant Meiosis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 990. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-333-6_22

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