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SUBMITTER: Higgins DM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4997046 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Higgins David M DM Nannas Natalie J NJ Dawe R Kelly RK
Frontiers in plant science 20160825
The classic maize mutant divergent spindle-1 (dv1) causes failures in meiotic spindle assembly and a decrease in pollen viability. By analyzing two independent dv1 alleles we demonstrate that this phenotype is caused by mutations in a member of the kinesin-14A subfamily, a class of C-terminal, minus-end directed microtubule motors. Further analysis demonstrates that defects in early spindle assembly are rare, but that later stages of spindle organization promoting the formation of finely focused ...[more]