… our understanding of plant germ cells is their functional differentiation. While germ cells are
… insight into evolutionarily conserved aspects of plant germ cells. Studies using motile sperm …

… and fertilization processes in higher plants is limited. Germ cells in animals diverge from
somatic cells early in embryo development, whereas plants have distinct vegetative and …

… Based on the strong expression of MpRKD in the egg and SCs, we hypothesized that MpRKD
functions in germ cell differentiation. To test this possibility, we performed genetic analyses …

… Of the latter category, some germ cell specific genes share functions … germ line cells. Most
of our information on the transcriptional repertoire of male germ cells comes from three plants: …

… because the only cells that exclusively contribute to the gametes are the generative cells (…
“reproductive cell lineage” and “germ cells” to define populations of cells that differentiate first …

… Stress induces both long-term and short-term effects on epigenetic mechanisms in plant
germ cell development. Short-term responses to abiotic stresses include DNA methylation …

… We further reasoned that if in non–male germline cells the LGC1 promoter is repressed by
the binding of a specific repressor to the silencer element, then flooding these cells with an …

… Most is known of the genes that control germ cell formation from systematic genetic screens
in invertebrates. In Drosophila and C. elegans, maternal effect mutations, in which the …

… in meiosis in plant germ cells. Phylogenetic, cytological, and mRNA expression analyses
suggest that MEL1 is a novel plant AGO that functions to maintain germ cell identity, possibly by …

… the germ cell lineage or the germ cells directly. During this step, germ cell determinants
are segregated, and the germ cell transcriptome becomes distinct from the mother cell. Once …