Smallness: gain and loss in plant chromosome research

  • Kiichi Fukui
  • Nobuko Ohmido
  • Toshiyuki Wako
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Abstract

Once, a good microscope was the pride of a laboratory in the field of cytology and cytogenetics. Now the situation seems to have completely changed. Biochemical and molecular biological equipment replace the position of microscopes even in the laboratories of cytology and cytogenetics. In this paper, the importance of the visual sense to the study of small plant chromosomes is again demonstrated through typical examples. New methodologies related to visual approaches in chromosome research are also reviewed based on the results obtained mainly in our research group. Smallness is, thus, no longer disadvantageous for chromosome research.

Keywords

Rice Chromosome Telomere Sequence Barley Chromosome Plant Chromosome Pachytene Chromosome 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Kiichi Fukui
    • 1
  • Nobuko Ohmido
    • 2
  • Toshiyuki Wako
    • 3
  1. 1.Graduate School of EngineeringDepartment of BiotechnologyOsaka, SuitaJapan
  2. 2.Hokuriku National Agricultural Experiment StationLaboratory of Rice Genetic EngineeringJoetsu, NiigataJapan
  3. 3.National Institute of Agrobiological ResourcesGenetic Resources II DepartmentTsukubaJapan

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