Article
Transcriptional repression specifies the central cell for double fertilization.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 17 Mar 2020
Zhang Meng-Xia, Zhu Shan-Shan, Xu Yong-Chao, Guo Ya-Long, Yang Wei-Cai, Li Hong-Ju
Abstract excerpt
Double fertilization is a key innovation for the evolutionary success of angiosperms by which the two fertilized female gametes, the egg cell and central cell, generate the embryo and endosperm, respectively. The female gametophyte (embryo sac) enclosed in the sporophyte is derived from a one-celled haploid cell lineage. It undergoes successive events of mitotic divisions, cellularization, and cell specification...
Topics
- AGAMOUS Protein, Arabidopsis
- Arabidopsis
- Arabidopsis Proteins
- Endosperm
- Fertilization
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Mutation
- Ovule
- Phylogeny
- Plants, Genetically Modified
