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SUBMITTER: Abe K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2692019 | biostudies-literature | 2009
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Abe Kiyomi K Osakabe Keishi K Ishikawa Yuichi Y Tagiri Akemi A Yamanouchi Hiroaki H Takyuu Toshio T Yoshioka Terutaka T Ito Takuya T Kobayashi Masatomo M Shinozaki Kazuo K Ichikawa Hiroaki H Toki Seiichi S
Journal of experimental botany 20090520 9
BRCA2 is a breast tumour susceptibility factor with functions in maintaining genome stability through ensuring efficient double-strand DNA break (DSB) repair via homologous recombination. Although best known in vertebrates, fungi, and higher plants also possess BRCA2-like genes. To investigate the role of Arabidopsis BRCA2 genes in DNA repair in somatic cells, transposon insertion mutants of the AtBRCA2a and AtBRCA2b genes were identified and characterized. atbrca2a-1 and atbrca2b-1 mutant plant ...[more]