Hypomethylation promotes autonomous endosperm development and rescues postfertilization lethality in fie mutants.
In most flowering plants, fertilization is necessary for development of the central cell into endosperm, but in the fie-1 mutant of Arabidopsis, the central cell can proliferate autonomously. However, autonomous fie-1 endosperms do not develop completely: They have fewer nuclei than sexually produce...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2000
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