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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Arabidopsis thaliana
SUBMITTER: Anja Schmidt
PROVIDER: E-MEXP-3137 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Schmidt Anja A Wuest Samuel E SE Vijverberg Kitty K Baroux Célia C Kleen Daniela D Grossniklaus Ueli U
PLoS biology 20110920 9
Germ line specification is a crucial step in the life cycle of all organisms. For sexual plant reproduction, the megaspore mother cell (MMC) is of crucial importance: it marks the first cell of the plant "germline" lineage that gets committed to undergo meiosis. One of the meiotic products, the functional megaspore, subsequently gives rise to the haploid, multicellular female gametophyte that harbours the female gametes. The MMC is formed by selection and differentiation of a single somatic, sub ...[more]