Abstract:
:Understanding the initiation of meiosis and the relationship of this event with other key cytogenetic processes are major goals in studying the genetic control of meiosis in higher plants. Our genetic and structural analysis of two mutant alleles of the ameiotic1 gene (am1 and am1-praI) suggest that this locus plays an essential role in the initiation of meiosis in maize. The product of the ameiotic1 gene affects an earlier stage in the meiotic sequence than any other known gene in maize and is important for the irreversible commitment of cells to meiosis and for crucial events marking the passage from premeiotic interphase into prophase I including chromosome synapsis. It appears that the period of ameiotic1 gene function in meiosis at a minimum covers the interval from some point during premeiotic interphase until the early zygotene stage of meiosis. To study the interaction of genes in the progression of meiosis, several double meiotic mutants were constructed. In these double mutants (i) the ameiotic1 mutant allele was brought together with the meiotic mutation (afd1) responsible for the fixation of centromeres in meiosis; and with the mutant alleles of the three meiotic genes that control homologous chromosome segregation (dv1, ms43 and ms28), which impair microtubule organizing center organization, the orientation of the spindle fiber apparatus, and the depolymerization of spindle filaments after the first meiotic division, respectively; (ii) the afd1 mutation was combined with two mutations (dsy1 and as1) affecting homologous pairing; (iii) the ms43 mutation was combined with the as1, the ms28 and the dv1 mutations; and (iv) the ms28 mutation was combined with the dv1 mutation and the ms4 (polymitotic1) mutations. An analysis of gene interaction in the double mutants led us to conclude that the ameiotic1 gene is epistatic over the afd1, the dv1, the ms43 and the ms28 genes but the significance of this relationship requires further analysis. The afd gene appears to function from premeiotic interphase throughout the first meiotic division, but it is likely that its function begins after the start of the ameiotic1 gene expression. The afd1 gene is epistatic over the two synaptic mutations dsy1 and as1 and also over the dv1 mutation. The new ameiotic*-485 and leptotene arrest*-487 mutations isolated from an active Robertson's Mutator stocks take part in the control of the initiation of meiosis.
journal_name
Geneticsjournal_title
Geneticsauthors
Golubovskaya I,Grebennikova ZK,Avalkina NA,Sheridan WFsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1993-12-01 00:00:00pages
1151-66issue
4eissn
0016-6731issn
1943-2631journal_volume
135pub_type
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