Franz Boideau
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Franz Boideau
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Post-doc fellow working on meiotic recombination in maize and Arabidopsis 🇨🇵🇵🇱
Genetics, cytogenetics & genomics.
Botany & cytology as a hobby 🌱🔬
Views are my own, he/him
Reposted by Franz Boideau
Six more years—plus a lot of blood, sweat, and tears—later, we are thrilled to finally share it: a cytological framework of female meiosis in Arabidopsis!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A cytological framework of female meiosis in Arabidopsis
Female and male meiosis often differ in many aspects, such as their duration and the frequency as well as the positioning of crossovers. However, studying female meiosis is often very challenging and ...
www.biorxiv.org
August 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Reposted by Franz Boideau
Related but cool combo of cytogenetics and phenotype. Know when the first QTL was mapped?

Sax, K. 1923. The association of size differences with seed coat pattern and pigmentation in Phaseolus vulgaris. Genetics 8:552-560.
August 27, 2025 at 3:12 AM