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SUBMITTER: Li J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1931559 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Li Jin J Harper Lisa C LC Golubovskaya Inna I Wang C Rachel CR Weber David D Meeley Robert B RB McElver John J Bowen Ben B Cande W Zacheus WZ Schnable Patrick S PS
Genetics 20070516 3
In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Rad51p plays a central role in homologous recombination and the repair of double-strand breaks (DSBs). Double mutants of the two Zea mays L. (maize) rad51 homologs are viable and develop well under normal conditions, but are male sterile and have substantially reduced seed set. Light microscopic analyses of male meiosis in these plants reveal reduced homologous pairing, synapsis of nonhomologous chromosomes, reduced bivalents at diakinesis, numerous chromosome breaks ...[more]