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A male-sterile mutant, mei-1, of Arabidopsis thaliana is described. In this mutant, instead of a tetrad of four microspores being formed after meiosis, a “tetrad” consisting of from five to eight microspores is formed. The microspores show a wide range of sizes and of DNA contents. The mutant is female-fertile. This mutant was produced by seed transformation with Agrobacterium and appears to be T-DNA tagged.
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He, C., Tirlapur, U., Cresti, M. et al. An Arabidopsis mutant showing aberrations in male meiosis. Sexual Plant Reprod 9, 54–57 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00230367
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