BOUQUET ARREST AND ITS CONSEQUENCES FOR ASYNAPTIC MEIOSIS IN CEREALS - HAPLOIDS AND WIDE HYBRIDS F1
N. V. Shamina,1, * Zh. M. Mukhina,2 E. I. Gordeeva,1
P. S. Orlov 3
1 Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of RAS, Novosibirsk,
2 Institute of Rice, Krasnodar, and
3 Novosibirsk State University;
* e-mail: shamina@bionet.nsc.ru
Arrest of chromosomes at bouquet configuration at zygothene leads to meiotic restitution in some haploids and
allohaploids in cereals: univalents are transported preferentially to one spindle pole in bipolar spindle because of
their oriented position in the beginning of prometaphase.
