Plant Centromere Biology

Jiming Jiang is a Professor of Horticulture at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research focuses on plant molecular cytogenetics, plant centromeres, potato breeding and genomics. In addition to his research activities Dr. Jiang also teaches a course on introductory cytogenetics, and he is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.James A. Birchler is Curators Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His lab studies gene expression in multicellular eukaryotes at the gene and chromosomal level, using maize and Drosophila as experimental organisms. Dr. Birchler has published widely in such journals as The New Phytologist, The Plant Cell, and Genes and Chromatin, and he is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

• Contributors viiPreface ixChapter 1 Arabidopsis Centromeres 3Minoru MurataChapter 2 Rice Centromeres 15Jiming JiangChapter 3 Maize Centromeres 25Gernot PrestingChapter 4 A Molecular Cytogenetic Analysis of the Structure, Evolution, and Epigenetic Modifi cations of Major DNA Sequences in Centromeres of Beta Species 39Falk Zakrzewski, Beatrice Weber, and Thomas SchmidtChapter 5 Centromere Synteny among Brachypodium, Wheat, and Rice 57Lili Qi, Bernd Friebe, and Bikram S. GillChapter 6 CENH3 for Establishing and Maintaining Centromeres 67Inna Lermontova and Ingo SchubertChapter 7 Holokinetic Centromeres 83Stefan Heckmann and Andreas HoubenChapter 8 Is the Heterochromatin of Meiotic Neocentromeres a Remnant of the Early Evolution of the Primitive Centromere? 95María J. Puertas and Alfredo VillasanteChapter 9 Misdivision of Centromeres 111Adam J. LukaszewskiChapter 10 Female Meiotic Drive in Monkeyfl owers: Insight into the Population Genetics of Selfi sh Centromeres 129Lila FishmanChapter 11 Plant Centromere Epigenetics 147Ryan N. Douglas and James A. BirchlerChapter 12 Centromere Evolution 159Jiming JiangChapter 13 Centromere-Mediated Generation of Haploid Plants 169Maruthachalam Ravi and Simon W.-L. ChanChapter 14 Engineered Plant Chromosomes 183Robert T. Gaeta and James A. BirchlerIndex 193Color plate is located between pages 182 and 183