“…Since then, cytological methods, such as chromosome spreading, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), and immunostaining, have been developed as classical and efficient approaches to interrogate meiosis and meiotic recombination in vivo (Armstrong, Sanchez‐Moran, & Franklin, 2009; Chelysheva et al., 2010; Wang, Cheng, Lu, Timofejeva, & Ma, 2014). Conventionally, CO interference quantification requires time‐consuming procedures, such as the generation of genome‐wide sets of pollen fluorescence‐tagged lines (FTLs) or construction of F 2 segregation populations (Kim & Choi, 2022) for monitoring meiotic recombination. By contrast, cytological assays have become convenient and effective approaches to analyze the number and distribution of COs and CO interference during meiosis (Armstrong, Caryl, Jones, & Franklin, 2002; Sanchez Moran, Armstrong, Santos, Franklin, & Jones, 2001).…”