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Arabidopsis is a very powerful tool for understanding meiosis in plants with genetic approaches. We provide here a simple summary of the techniques used to test if a candidate gene has an essential meiotic function. These protocols require no specific prior knowledge and help eliminate easily avoided mistakes in the attribution of a meiotic function to your favorite gene.
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Crismani, W., Mercier, R. (2013). Identifying Meiotic Mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana . 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_22
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