CONSOLIDATION OF CYTOSKELETON DURING PLANT SPINDLE FORMATION.
I. ABNORMALITIES OF SPINDLE INTEGRITY IN MEIOSIS
T. V. Shamina, N. M. Kovaleva, O. A. Shatskaya, E. D. Gavrilova
Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of RAS, Novosibirsk, and the Lukyanenko
Agricultural Institute, Krasnodar, Russia;
The process of formation of multiple spindles in mononucleate pollen mother cells during meiosis in general wide
hybrids F1 and haploids is described. It is assumed that the abnormality may be caused by aberration of a special process at late
prometaphase providing for the spindle consolidation.
