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SEXUAL PLANT REPRODUCTION
Volume 12, Issue 4, Pages 209-218Publisher
SPRINGER VERLAG
DOI: 10.1007/s004970050002
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Arabidopsis thaliana; megasporogenesis; megagametogenesis; mitosis-meiosis switch
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In this paper, we describe a novel plant mutant affected exclusively in the female mitosis-meiosis switch. The major effect of the swil mutation in Arabidopsis thaliana L. is to delay megasporogenesis events by inserting additional mitotic divisions of the megasporocyte. As a result of this delay, megagametogenesis is also affected. The absence of cellular polarity in the megasporocytes was also observed. Ovule ontogenesis is not affected by the mutation. The swil mutant is particularly interesting for studying sporophyt-gametophyte interactions. The swil mutation, obtained from a T-DNA tagging experiment, is monogenic recessive and mapped on chromosome five, at 16 cM from the yellow inflorescence marker.
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