The Han Fangpu research group has made new progress in the study of plant centromeres

The centromere is an important part of the chromosome and plays an important role in the correct separation of the chromosome

The continuous discovery of dicentric chromosomes and neocentric chromosomes in different species in plants indicates that a large number of repetitive sequences in the centromere region is neither a sufficient nor a necessary condition for its function ( Birchler and Han 2018; Liu et al.

The Han Fangpu research group of the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has long been engaged in the research of plant chromosome biology

In order to further understand the distribution characteristics of the R-loop structure in the repetitive sequence of the centromere region, the research group used the ssDRIP-seq technology to conduct the mapping of the whole genome R-loop map of

The paper in 2021 Nian 7 Yue 9 published online in the Genome Research, ( DOI: 10.

Figure: Atomic force microscope observation of the R-loop structure formed on CRM1 and CRM2