Jiming Jiang & James A. Birchler 
Plant Centromere Biology 

Plant Centromere Biology is dedicated to plant
centromere research. Chapters cover the structure of centromeres
from several plant species including Arabidopsis thaliana, rice,
maize, wheat and beet, while other sections cover several unique
characteristics associated with plant centromeres, including
classical and modern neocentromeres, centromere drive and
centromere misdivision. Additional chapters are dedicated to
epigenetic modification and evolution of plant centromeres, and
development and application of plant artificial
chromosomes.

Written by an international group of experts in the field, Plant
Centromere Biology is a valuable handbook for all plant
scientists working on plant genome research. Beyond the
bench, it can also serve as a helpful reference tool or textbook
for upper level college classes on cytogenetics or genome
analysis.

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Contributors vii

Preface ix

Chapter 1 Arabidopsis Centromeres 3

Minoru Murata

Chapter 2 Rice Centromeres 15

Jiming Jiang

Chapter 3 Maize Centromeres 25

Gernot Presting

Chapter 4 A Molecular Cytogenetic Analysis of the Structure,
Evolution, and Epigenetic Modifi cations of Major DNA Sequences in
Centromeres of Beta Species 39

Falk Zakrzewski, Beatrice Weber, and Thomas Schmidt

Chapter 5 Centromere Synteny among Brachypodium, Wheat, and Rice
57

Lili Qi, Bernd Friebe, and Bikram S. Gill

Chapter 6 CENH3 for Establishing and Maintaining Centromeres
67

Inna Lermontova and Ingo Schubert

Chapter 7 Holokinetic Centromeres 83

Stefan Heckmann and Andreas Houben

Chapter 8 Is the Heterochromatin of Meiotic Neocentromeres a
Remnant of the Early Evolution of the Primitive Centromere?
95

María J. Puertas and Alfredo Villasante

Chapter 9 Misdivision of Centromeres 111

Adam J. Lukaszewski

Chapter 10 Female Meiotic Drive in Monkeyfl owers: Insight into
the Population Genetics of Selfi sh Centromeres 129

Lila Fishman

Chapter 11 Plant Centromere Epigenetics 147

Ryan N. Douglas and James A. Birchler

Chapter 12 Centromere Evolution 159

Jiming Jiang

Chapter 13 Centromere-Mediated Generation of Haploid Plants
169

Maruthachalam Ravi and Simon W.-L. Chan

Chapter 14 Engineered Plant Chromosomes 183

Robert T. Gaeta and James A. Birchler

Index 193

Color plate is located between pages 182 and 183

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Jiming Jiang is a Professor of Horticulture at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research focuses on plant
molecular cytogenetics, plant centromeres, potato breeding and
genomics. In addition to his research activities Dr. Jiang also
teaches a course on introductory cytogenetics, and he is an elected
fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science.

James A. Birchler is Curators Professor of
Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His lab
studies gene expression in multicellular eukaryotes at the gene and
chromosomal level, using maize and Drosophila as experimental
organisms. Dr. Birchler has published widely in such journals as
The New Phytologist, The Plant Cell, and Genes and Chromatin, and
he is an elected fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science.