TABLE 1.
Maize meiotic mutants
| Gene symbol and chromosome arm location | Reference or origin | Allele symbol after genetic analysis |
| Differentiation of meiocytes | ||
| multiple archesporial cells 1 (mac1), 10S | Abramova et al. (2002); Sheridan et al. (1996, 1999) | mac1 (former name lar487) |
| Switch to meiotic cell cycle | ||
| ameiotic 1 (am1), (six alleles) 5S | Rhoades (1956); Golubovskaya et al. (1992, 1993, 1997); Palmer (1971); Pawlowski et al. (2009) | am1-1, am1-2, am1-485, am1-489, am1-6, am1-praI |
| Sister-chromatid cohesion | ||
| absence of the first division (afd1), (five alleles), 6.08 | Golubovskaya and Mashnenkov (1975); Golubovskaya et al. (2006); | afd1-1, afd1-2, afd1-3, afd1-4, afd1-5 |
| Zm shugoshin 1 (sgo1), 7.02 | Golubovskaya et al. (2003); Hamant et al. (2005) | sgo1 |
| Chromosome condensation | ||
| Meiotic025 (Mei025), 5L | Beadle (1937); Golubovskaya (1979); | Mei025 |
| sticky1 (st1) | Golubovskaya et al. (2003) | st1 |
| elongate1 (el1), 8L | Rhoades and Dempsey (1966) | el1 |
| Meiotic bouquet | ||
| plural abnormalities of meiosis (pam1), 1L | Golubovskaya et al. (2002); Golubovskaya (1977) | pam1 |
| Homologous synapsis | ||
| asynaptic 1 (as1), 1S | Beadle (1930) | as1 |
| desynaptic1 (dy1) (SP) | Nelson and Clary (1952) | dy1 |
| desynaptic 1 (dsy1) (two alleles) | Golubovskaya et al. (1997); Golubovskaya and Mashnenkov (1976) | dsy1-1, dsy1-9101 |
| desynaptic2 (dsy2), 5.03–05 | Golubovskaya (1989); Franklin et al. (2003) | dsy2 |
| desynaptic 9303 (dsy*9303) | Golubovskaya et al. (2003) | dsya9303 |
| desynaptic 9305 (dsy*9305) | dsya9305 | |
| desynaptic (dsy9904a) | dsy9904a | |
| desynaptic (dsy9904) | dsy9904b | |
| desynaptic (dsy9905a) | dsy9905a | |
| desynaptic (dsy9905b) | dsy9905b | |
| desynaptic (dsy9906a) | dsy9906a | |
| desynaptic (dsy9906) | dsy9906b | |
| mtm99-14a | Golubovskaya et al. (2003) | mtm99-14 |
| mtm99-25 | Golubovskaya et al. (2003) | mtm99-25 |
| mtm99-30 | mtm99-30 | |
| Homology search | ||
| desynaptic 498, renamed poor homology synapsis (phs1) 9.03 | Golubovskaya et al. (2003); Pawlowski et al. (2004) | phs1 |
| mutator male sterile (mms25), renamed desynaptic CS | Staiger and Cande (1990); Golubovskaya et al. (2003) | dsyCS |
| segregation II | Golubovskaya et al. (2003) | segII |
| Recombination | ||
| ZmRAD51A, 3.04 | Franklin et al. (1999) | Renamed Zm Rad51A1 |
| ZmRad51B, 7.04 | Li et al. (2007) | ZmRad51A2 |
| Monopolar centromere attachment | ||
| mtm00-10 | Inna Golubovskaya, 2006b | mtm00-10 |
| Meiotic cytoskeleton/spindle | ||
| divergent 1 (dv1) | Clark (1940) | dv1 |
| divergent EMS new | Inna Golubovskaya, 2008b | Same phenotype as dv1 |
| male sterile 43 (ms43) | Golubovskaya (1989) | ms43 |
| male sterile 28 (ms28) | Golubovskaya (1989) | ms28 |
| variable 1 (va1), 7L | Beadle (1932) | va1 |
| Meiosis exit | ||
| polymitotic1, 2 alleles, 6S | Beadle (1929, 1931) | po1, po1-ms6 |
| male sterile 6 | Beadle (1929, 1931) | New allele of po1 |
| po1-ms4 | Beadle (1932); Liu et al. (1993) | New allele of po1-ms4 |
a
mtm represents maize targeted mutagenesis.
b
Mutants found recently have not been published yet.