The Zygotic Transition Is Initiated in Unicellular Plant Zygotes with Asymmetric Activation of Parental Genomes

Developmental Cell

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 349-358.e4

  Anderson, Sarah N ^a   Johnson, Cameron S ^a   Chesnut, Joshua ^b   Jones, Daniel S ^b   Khanday, Imtiyaz ^a   Woodhouse, Margaret ^a   Li, Chenxin ^a   Conrad, Liza J ^a,c   Russell, Scott D ^b   Sundaresan, Venkatesan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c ECKERD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

fertilization; genome activation; maternal to zygotic transition; plant development; plant reproduction

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL DIVISION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE; TRANSPOSON; ZYGOTE; ARABIDOPSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; PLANT GENE; PLANT SEED; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; SEEDS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85032619375     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2017.10.005     Document Type: Article

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