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Control of plant germline proliferation by SCF(FBL17) degradation of cell cycle inhibitors.
Nature - 23 Oct 2008
Kim Hyo Jung, Oh Sung Aeong, Brownfield Lynette, Hong Sung Hyun, Ryu Hojin, Hwang Ildoo, Twell David, Nam Hong Gil
Abstract excerpt
Flowering plants possess a unique reproductive strategy, involving double fertilization by twin sperm cells. Unlike animal germ lines, the male germ cell lineage in plants only forms after meiosis and involves asymmetric division of haploid microspores, to produce a large, non-germline vegetative cell and a germ cell that undergoes one further division to produce the twin sperm cells. Although this switch in cell...
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