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Arabidopsis GLAUCE promotes fertilization-independent endosperm development and expression of paternally inherited alleles.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Nov 2007
Ngo Quy A, Moore James M, Baskar Ramamurthy, Grossniklaus Ueli, Sundaresan Venkatesan
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Early seed development of sexually reproducing plants requires both maternal and paternal genomes but is prominently maternally influenced. A novel gametophytic maternal-effect mutant defective in early embryo and endosperm development, glauce (glc), has been isolated from a population of Arabidopsis Ds transposon insertion lines. The glc mutation results from a deletion at the Ds insertion site, and the...
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