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Mutations in the FIE and MEA genes that encode interacting polycomb proteins cause parent-of-origin effects on seed development by distinct mechanisms.
The Plant cell - 1 Dec 2000
Yadegari R, Kinoshita T, Lotan O, Cohen G, Katz A, Choi Y, Katz A, Nakashima K, Harada J J, Goldberg R B, Fischer R L, Ohad N
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, which replicates to generate the endosperm, a tissue that supports embryo development. The FERTILIZATION-INDEPENDENT ENDOSPERM (FIE) and MEDEA (MEA) genes encode WD and SET domain polycomb proteins, respectively. In the absence...
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