During meiosis, sister chromatids produced by chromosome duplication are held together by Rec8, a meiosis-specific cohesion protein. Rec8 joins the whole length of the sister chromatids together ...

The pollen mother cells of the fertile offspring 4211C and 178C underwent normal meiosis, forming normal tetrads and pollen grains (Figure 3). The female parent 4508A did not have any mature pollen ...

There are almost 260,000 independent clones sequenced from the 5’ end in the Sugarcane Expressed Sequence Tag (SUCEST) database, which have been obtained from 37 cDNA libraries prepared from different ...