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Imprinting of the MEDEA polycomb gene in the Arabidopsis endosperm.
The Plant cell - 1 Oct 1999
Kinoshita T, Yadegari R, Harada J J, Goldberg R B, Fischer R L
Abstract excerpt
In flowering plants, 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, which is a tissue that supports embryo development. MEDEA (MEA) encodes an Arabidopsis SET domain Polycomb protein. Inheritance of a maternal loss-of-function mea allele results in embryo...
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