Meiotic recombination: mixing it up in plants

Y Wang, GP Copenhaver - Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Meiosis halves diploid chromosome numbers to haploid levels that are essential for sexual
reproduction in most eukaryotes. Meiotic recombination ensures the formation of bivalents …

Positive and negative regulators of RAD51/DMC1 in homologous recombination and DNA replication

M Ito, Y Fujita, A Shinohara - DNA repair, 2024 - Elsevier
RAD51 recombinase plays a central role in homologous recombination (HR) by forming a
nucleoprotein filament on single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) to catalyze homology search and …

RNA-seq analyses of multiple meristems of soybean: novel and alternative transcripts, evolutionary and functional implications

L Wang, C Cao, Q Ma, Q Zeng, H Wang, Z Cheng… - BMC plant biology, 2014 - Springer
Background Soybean is one of the most important crops, providing large amounts of dietary
proteins and edible oil, and is also an excellent model for studying evolution of duplicated …

The use of comet assay in plant toxicology: recent advances

CLV Santos, B Pourrut… - Frontiers in Genetics, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The systematic study of genotoxicity in plants induced by contaminants and other stress
agents has been hindered to date by the lack of reliable and robust biomarkers. The comet …

Protecting DNA from errors and damage: an overview of DNA repair mechanisms in plants compared to mammals

CP Spampinato - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2017 - Springer
The genome integrity of all organisms is constantly threatened by replication errors and DNA
damage arising from endogenous and exogenous sources. Such base pair anomalies must …

The plant‐specific CDKB1‐CYCB1 complex mediates homologous recombination repair in Arabidopsis

AK Weimer, S Biedermann, H Harashima… - The EMBO …, 2016 - embopress.org
Upon DNA damage, cyclin‐dependent kinases (CDK s) are typically inhibited to block cell
division. In many organisms, however, it has been found that CDK activity is required for …

Ionizing radiation manifesting DNA damage response in plants: An overview of DNA damage signaling and repair mechanisms in plants

JH Kim, TH Ryu, SS Lee, S Lee, BY Chung - Plant Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Plants orchestrate various DNA damage responses (DDRs) to overcome the deleterious
impacts of genotoxic agents on genetic materials. Ionizing radiation (IR) is widely used as a …

Arabidopsis lamin-like proteins CRWN1 and CRWN2 interact with SUPPRESSOR OF NPR1-1 INDUCIBLE 1 and RAD51D to prevent DNA damage

C Yin, A Sun, T Guo, X Mao, Y Fang - The Plant Cell, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Plants cope with various recurring stress conditions that often induce DNA damage,
ultimately affecting plant genome integrity, growth, and productivity. The CROWDED …

Genome-wide identification of RETINOBLASTOMA RELATED 1 binding sites in Arabidopsis reveals novel DNA damage regulators

D Bouyer, M Heese, P Chen, H Harashima… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Retinoblastoma (pRb) is a multifunctional regulator, which was likely present in the last
common ancestor of all eukaryotes. The Arabidopsis pRb homolog RETINOBLASTOMA …

Mediators of homologous DNA pairing

A Zelensky, R Kanaar… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2014 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Homologous DNA pairing and strand exchange are at the core of homologous
recombination. These reactions are promoted by a DNA-strand-exchange protein …