PMID- 23559202 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20130926 LR - 20131121 IS - 1940-6029 (Electronic) IS - 1064-3745 (Linking) VI - 990 DP - 2013 TI - Three-dimensional acrylamide fluorescence in situ hybridization for plant cells. PG - 53-66 LID - 10.1007/978-1-62703-333-6_6 [doi] AB - Plant meiosis involves complex and dynamic processes that occur within the space inside the nucleus. Direct inspection of meiotic chromosomes by fluorescence microscopy has been used to investigate many of these processes. In particular, optical sectioning microscopy of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH)-stained nuclei provides three-dimensional spatial information about the organization and distribution of specific sequences and chromosomal loci within the nucleus. Here we provide a fully detailed three-dimensional (3D) acrylamide FISH method for the analysis of plant meiotic nuclei. Several examples illustrate the versatility of this technique for the investigation of meiotic telomere dynamics in maize, Arabidopsis, and oat. Additional examples of 3D FISH include chromosome painting in a maize chromosome-addition line of oat and telomere FISH with maize nuclei from plants expressing a fluorescently tagged fusion protein, histone H2B-mCherry. FAU - Howe, Elizabeth S AU - Howe ES AD - Department of Biological Science, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA. FAU - Murphy, Shaun P AU - Murphy SP FAU - Bass, Hank W AU - Bass HW LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. PL - United States TA - Methods Mol Biol JT - Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) JID - 9214969 RN - 20R035KLCI (Acrylamide) SB - IM MH - Acrylamide/chemistry MH - Chromosomes, Plant MH - Germ Cells, Plant MH - Imaging, Three-Dimensional MH - In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence/*methods MH - Meiosis/genetics MH - *Plant Cells EDAT- 2013/04/06 06:00 MHDA- 2013/09/27 06:00 CRDT- 2013/04/06 06:00 PHST- 2013/04/06 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/04/06 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2013/09/27 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1007/978-1-62703-333-6_6 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Methods Mol Biol. 2013;990:53-66. doi: 10.1007/978-1-62703-333-6_6.