Maternal control of embryogenesis by MEDEA, a Polycomb group gene in Arabidopsis

Science

Volumn 280, Issue 5362, 1998, Pages 446-450

  Grossniklaus, Ueli ^a   Vielle Calzada, Jean Philippe ^a   Hoeppner, Marilu A ^a   Gagliano, Wendy B ^a,b  

^a Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDEA PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PLANT PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; RHEA;

EID: 0032540508     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.280.5362.446     Document Type: Article

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53. We thank J. Moore for help with the mutagenesis, M. Koornneef for providing the parental tetraptoid line, W. Herr, R. Martienssen, and B. Stillman for comments on the manuscript, and the Hernandez, Hengartner, and Stillman laboratories for space on sequencing gels. Special thanks go to V. Sundaresan and R. Martienssen for providing us access to their insertional mutagenesis system before publication and to S. Strome for allowing us to cite unpublished data. Supported by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory President's Council, the Robertson Research Foundation, and fellowships from the European Molecular Biology Organization, the Human Frontier Science Program, and the Janggen-Poehn Foundation to U.G.