The Maternal-to-Zygotic Transition in Flowering Plants. Evidence, Mechanisms, and Plasticity.

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 113, Issue , 2015, Pages 351-371

  Baroux, Célia ^a   Grossniklaus, Ueli ^a  

^a Botanical Institute of the University of Basel   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Chromatin assembly factor 1; Embryo; Endosperm; Gametophyte; Genome activation; Maternal effect; Seed; Small RNA pathway; Zygotic lethal

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOLOGY; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT SEED; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ZYGOTE;

FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PLANTS; SEEDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84946471477     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.ctdb.2015.06.005     Document Type: Chapter

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