SECTION I Structure, Variation, and Mapping in Plant Cytogenetics
1. Plant Chromosomal Deletions, Insertions, and. Rearrangements
Donald L. Auger and William F. Sheridan
2. Genome Structure and Chromosome. Function
Khwaja G. Hossain and Shahryar F. Kianian
3. Plant B Chromosomes-what makes them different?
Andreas Houben and Mariana Carchilan
4. Cytogenetic Mapping in Plants
Debbie M. Figueroa, Ina E. Amarillo, and Hank W. Bass
5. DNA and Chromatin Fiber-based Plant Cytogenetics
Jason G. Walling and Jiming Jiang
SECTION II Function, Organization, and Dynamics in Plant Cytogenetics
6. Plant Centromeres
James A. Birchler, Zhi Gao, and Fangpu Han
7. Plant Telomeres
Jonathan C. Lamb, Eugene V. Shakirov, and Dorothy E. Shippen
8. Genetics and Cytology of Meiotic Chromosome Behavior in Plants
Shaun P. Murphy and Hank W. Bass
9. Chromosomal Distribution and Functional Interpretation of Epigenetic Histone Marks in Plants
Jörg Fuchs and Ingo Schubert
SECTION III Methods, Informatics, and Instruction in Plant Cytogenetics
10. Chromosome microdissection and utilization of microisolated DNA
Andreas Houben
11. Maize Antibody Procedures: Immunolocalization and Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP)
X. Li, C. N. Topp, and R. K. Dawe
12. Methods of Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization on Extended DNA Fibers (fiber-FISH) Jason G. Walling, Robert M. Stupar, and Jiming Jiang
13. Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization and in Situ PCR
James A. Birchler and Tatiana V. Danilova
14. Plant Cytogenetics in Genome Databases
Lisa C. Harper, Taner Z. Sen, and Carolyn J. Lawrence
15. Practical Laboratory Exercises for Plant Molecular Cytogenetics
Scott A. Jackson, Shahryar F. Kianian, Khwaja G. Hossain, and Jason G. Walling
