Article
High expression in maize pollen correlates with genetic contributions to pollen fitness as well as with coordinated transcription from neighboring transposable elements.
PLoS genetics - 1 Apr 2020
Warman Cedar, Panda Kaushik, Vejlupkova Zuzana, Hokin Sam, Unger-Wallace Erica, Cole Rex A, Chettoor Antony M, Jiang Duo, Vollbrecht Erik, Evans Matthew M S, Slotkin R Keith, Fowler John E
Abstract excerpt
In flowering plants, gene expression in the haploid male gametophyte (pollen) is essential for sperm delivery and double fertilization. Pollen also undergoes dynamic epigenetic regulation of expression from transposable elements (TEs), but how this process interacts with gene expression is not clearly understood. To explore relationships among these processes, we quantified transcript levels in four male...
Topics
- Cell Lineage
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Genes, Plant
- Genetic Fitness
- Genome, Plant
- Meiosis
- Mutagenesis, Insertional