A molecular view of plant centromeres

J Jiang, JA Birchler, WA Parrott, RK Dawe - Trends in plant science, 2003 - cell.com
Although plants were the organisms of choice in several classical centromere studies,
molecular and biochemical studies of plant centromeres have lagged behind those in model …

The genetic and epigenetic landscape of the Arabidopsis centromeres

M Naish, M Alonge, P Wlodzimierz, AJ Tock… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The centromeres of eukaryotic chromosomes assemble the multiprotein
kinetochore complex and thereby position attachment to the spindle microtubules, allowing …

Arabidopsis thaliana

EM Meyerowitz - Annual review of genetics, 1987 - authors.library.caltech.edu
Arabidopsis thaliana is a small weed in the mustard family. It has been a convenient subject
for studies in classical genetics for over forty years (35, 76). Recently, investigators have …

Reduced DNA methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana results in abnormal plant development.

EJ Finnegan, WJ Peacock… - Proceedings of the …, 1996 - National Acad Sciences
Arabidopsis plants transformed with an antisense construct of an Arabidopsis
methyltransferase cDNA (METI) have reduced cytosine methylation in CG dinucleotides …

Arabidopsis thaliana DNA Methylation Mutants

A Vongs, T Kakutani, RA Martienssen, EJ Richards - Science, 1993 - science.org
Three DNA hypomethylation mutants of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana were
isolated by screening mutagenized populations for plants containing centromeric repetitive …

Isolation of a higher eukaryotic telomere from Arabidopsis thaliana

EJ Richards, FM Ausubel - Cell, 1988 - cell.com
We have developed a method for constructing genomic libraries enriched for telomeric DNA
sequences, enabling the isolation of telomeres from higher eukaryotic organisms with large …

The late flowering phenotype of fwa mutants is caused by gain-of-function epigenetic alleles of a homeodomain gene

WJJ Soppe, SE Jacobsen, C Alonso-Blanco… - Molecular cell, 2000 - cell.com
The transition to flowering in Arabidopsis thaliana is delayed in fwa mutant plants. FWA was
identified by loss-of-function mutations in normally flowering revertants of the fwa mutant …

Interphase chromosomes in Arabidopsis are organized as well defined chromocenters from which euchromatin loops emanate

P Fransz, JH De Jong, M Lysak… - Proceedings of the …, 2002 - National Acad Sciences
Heterochromatin in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana is confined to small
pericentromeric regions of all five chromosomes and to the nucleolus organizing regions …

Sequence and analysis of chromosome 2 of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana

X Lin, S Kaul, S Rounsley, TP Shea, MI Benito… - Nature, 1999 - nature.com
Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis) is unique among plant model organisms in having a
small genome (130–140 Mb), excellent physical and genetic maps, and little repetitive DNA …

Phenotypic instability and rapid gene silencing in newly formed Arabidopsis allotetraploids

L Comai, AP Tyagi, K Winter, R Holmes-Davis… - The Plant …, 2000 - academic.oup.com
Allopolyploid hybridization serves as a major pathway for plant evolution, but in its early
stages it is associated with phenotypic and genomic instabilities that are poorly understood …