Part I Structure, Variation, and Mapping in Plant
Cytogenetics
1 Plant Chromosomal Deletions, Insertions, and Rearrangements .. 3
Donald L. Auger and William F. Sheridan
2 Genome Structure and Chromosome Function .................... 37
Khwaja G. Hossain, Scott A. Jackson, and Shahryar
F. Kianian
3 Plant В Chromosomes: What Makes Them Different? ............. 59
Andreas Houben and Mariana Carchilan
4 Cytogenetic Mapping in Plants ............................... 79
Debbie M. Figueroa, Ina E. Amarillo, and Hank W. Bass
5 DNA and Chromatin Fiber-Based Plant Cytogenetics ........... 121
Jason G. Walling and Jiming Jiang
Part II Function, Organization, and Dynamics in Plant
Cytogenetics
6 Plant Centromeres .......................................... 133
James A. Birchler, Zhi Gao, and Fangpu Han
7 Plant Telomeres ............................................ 143
Jonathan C. Lamb, Eugene V. Shakirov, and Dorothy
E. Shippen
8 Genetics and Cytology of Meiotic Chromosome Behavior in
Plants ..................................................... 193
Shaun P. Murphy and Hank W. Bass
9 Chromosomal Distribution and Functional Interpretation
of Epigenetic Histone Marks in Plants ...................... 231
Jörg Fuchs and Ingo Schubert
Part III Methods, Informatics, and Instruction in Plant
Cytogenetics
10 Chromosome Microdissection and Utilization
of Microisolated DNA ....................................... 257
Andreas Houben
11 Maize Antibody Procedures: Immunolocalization and
Chromatin Immunoprecipitation .............................. 271
X. Li, C.N. Topp, and R.K. Dawe
12 Methods of Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization on Extended
DNA Fibers (Fiber-FISH) .................................... 287
Jason G. Walling, Robert M. Stupar, and Jiming Jiang
13 Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization and In Situ PCR ......... 295
James A. Birchler and Tatiana V. Danilova
14 Plant Cytogenetics in Genome Databases ..................... 311
Lisa C. Harper, Taner Z. Sen, and Carolyn J. Lawrence
15 Practical Laboratory Exercises for Plant Molecular
Cytogenetics ............................................... 323
Scott A. Jackson, Shahryar F. Kianian, Khwaja G. Hossain,
and Jason G. Walling
Index ......................................................... 335
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