Abstract
Development of techniques to analyze pachytene chromosomes has greatly overcome most of the difficulties in cytological studies of rice chromosomes caused by their small size. Visualization of meiotic chromosomes has now become routine in cytogenetic studies in this species. This chapter provides protocols on basic meiotic chromosome preparation, FISH analysis, and immunocytology in rice.
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This work was supported by grants from the Ministry of Sciences and Technology of China (2011CB944602 and 2012AA100101).
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Cheng, Z. (2013). Analyzing Meiotic Chromosomes in Rice. In: Pawlowski, W., Grelon, M., Armstrong, S. (eds) Plant Meiosis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 990. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-333-6_13
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