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Female gametophytic cell specification and seed development require the function of the putative Arabidopsis INCENP ortholog WYRD.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Aug 2011
Kirioukhova Olga, Johnston Amal J, Kleen Daniela, Kägi Christina, Baskar Ramamurthy, Moore James M, Bäumlein Helmut, Gross-Hardt Rita, Grossniklaus Ueli
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In plants, gametes, along with accessory cells, are formed by the haploid gametophytes through a series of mitotic divisions, cell specification and differentiation events. How the cells in the female gametophyte of flowering plants differentiate into gametes (the egg and central cell) and accessory cells remains largely unknown. In a screen for mutations that affect egg cell differentiation in Arabidopsis, we...
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