Plant Evolution: What Does It Take To Be an Egg?

Boavida, Leonor C.; Becker, Jörg D.

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Boavida, Leonor C.

Becker, Jörg D.

Abstract(s)

The genetic regulation of cell patterning within plant gametophytes remains poorly understood. Now, two new studies in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha shed light on the conserved function of an RKD transcription factor as a key regulator of egg cell fate in the land plant lineage.

Keywords

plants RKD MpRKD Marchantia polymorpha

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.7/714

Citation

Leonor C. Boavida, Jörg D. Becker, Plant Evolution: What Does It Take To Be an Egg?, Current Biology, Volume 26, Issue 13, 11 July 2016, Pages R527-R530, ISSN 0960-9822, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.05.044. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982216305395)