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Hypomethylation promotes autonomous endosperm development and rescues postfertilization lethality in fie mutants.
The Plant cell - 1 Nov 2000
Vinkenoog R, Spielman M, Adams S, Fischer R L, Dickinson H G, Scott R J
Abstract excerpt
In most flowering plants, fertilization is necessary for development of the central cell into endosperm, but in the fie-1 mutant of Arabidopsis, the central cell can proliferate autonomously. However, autonomous fie-1 endosperms do not develop completely: They have fewer nuclei than sexually produced endosperms, cellularization does not take place, and no clear distinction is seen between the different endosperm...
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