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SUBMITTER: Zhang MX
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7084083 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Meng-Xia MX Zhu Shan-Shan SS Xu Yong-Chao YC Guo Ya-Long YL Yang Wei-Cai WC Li Hong-Ju HJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200304 11
Double fertilization is a key innovation for the evolutionary success of angiosperms by which the two fertilized female gametes, the egg cell and central cell, generate the embryo and endosperm, respectively. The female gametophyte (embryo sac) enclosed in the sporophyte is derived from a one-celled haploid cell lineage. It undergoes successive events of mitotic divisions, cellularization, and cell specification to give rise to the mature embryo sac, which contains the two female gametes accompa ...[more]