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Control of fertilization-independent endosperm development by the MEDEA polycomb gene in Arabidopsis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 30 Mar 1999
Kiyosue T, Ohad N, Yadegari R, Hannon M, Dinneny J, Wells D, Katz A, Margossian L, Harada J J, Goldberg R B, Fischer R L
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Higher plant reproduction is unique because two cells are fertilized in the haploid female gametophyte. Egg and sperm nuclei fuse to form the embryo. A second sperm nucleus fuses with the central cell nucleus that replicates to generate the endosperm, a tissue that supports embryo development. To...
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