Plant Cytogenetics : Cytogenetic And Genome Research 2005

1. Preface

CH 1. Cytogenetics and Genomics, Physical Mapping
2. Microdissection and microcloning of plant chromosomes
3. Organization and evolution of highly repeated satellite DNA sequences in
plant chromosomes
4. Unraveling the genome structure of polyploids using FISH and GISH; examples
of sugarcane and banana
5. Diversity of a major repetitive DNA sequence in diploid and polyploid
Triticeae
6. Variability of the chromosomal distribution of Ty3-gypsy retrotransposons in
the populations of two wild Triticeae species
7. Nuclear genome size and genomic distribution of ribosomal DNA in Musa and
Ensete (Musaceae): taxonomic implications
8. Long-range organization of plant satellite repeats investigated using strand-
specific FISH
9. Cytogenetic mapping in maize
10. 3D Analysis of chromosome architecture: advantages and limitations with SEM
11. High-resolution physical mapping of the secalin-1 locus of rye on extended
DNA fibers
12. Recent development of image analysis methods in plant chromosome research

CH 2. Nuclear and Chromosome Organization
13. McClintock's controlling elements: the full story
14. Ribosomal DNA heterochromatin in plants
15. The positioning of rye homologous chromosomes added to wheat through the
cell cycle in somatic cells untreated and treated with colchicine
16. Movement ability of rye terminal neocentromeres
17. The simple ultrastructure of the maize kinetochore fits a two-domain model
18. Molecular analysis of holocentric centromeres of Luzula species
19. The controversial telomeres of lily plants
20. Novel phosphorylation of histone H3 at threonine 11 that temporally
correlates with condensation of mitotic and meiotic chromosomes in plant cells
21. Minichromosomes derived from the B chromosome of maize
22. Differentiating plant cells switched to proliferation remodel the
functional organization of nuclear domains
23. Chromosome organization in wheat endosperm and embryo

CH 3. Cell Division, Mitosis and Meiosis
24. A strategy to investigate the plant meiotic proteome
25. Plant chromosome homology: hypotheses relating rendezvous, recognition and
reciprocal exchange
26. Recombination nodules in plants
27. Understanding the cytological diploidization mechanism of polyploid wild
wheats
28. Synaptic behaviour of hexaploid wheat haploids with different effectiveness
of the diploidizing mechanism
29. Meiotic mutations in rye Secale cereale L.
30. Strategies for the study of meiosis in rye
31. Centromere-specific repetitive sequences from Torenia, a model plant for
interspecific fertilization, and whole-mount FISH of its interspecific hybrid
embryos

CH 4. Chromosome Evolution, Cytotaxonomy
32. Genome evolution of allopolyploids: a process of cytological and genetic
diploidization
33. Allopolyploidy - a shaping force in the evolution of wheat genomes
34. The genome organization and diversification of maize and its allied species
revisited: evidences from classical and FISH-GISH cytogenetic analysis
35. Architecture and evolution of dinoflagellate chromosomes: an enigmatic
origin
36. The relationships among lemons, limes and citron: a chromosomal comparison
37. Biogeographic distribution of polyploidy and B chromosomes in the apomictic
Boechera holboellii complex
38. Robertsonian translocations in wheat arise by centric misdivision of
univalents at anaphase I and rejoining of broken centromeres during
interkinesis of meiosis II
39. Molecular cytogenetics and tandem repeat sequence evolution in the
allopolyploid Nicotiana rustica compared with diploid progenitors N. paniculata
and N. undulata
40. Identification of individual chromosomes and parental genomes in Brassica
juncea using GISH and FISH

CH 5. Cytogenetics and Plant Breeding
41. Wheat cytogenetics in the genomics era and its relevance to breeding
42. Recent developments in durum wheat chromosome engin