Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon leading to parentally biased gene
expression. Throughout the years, extensive efforts have been made to characterize the …

The grass seed or caryopsis originates from a monocarpellary ovary with a single ovule and
contains the main storage tissue, the endosperm. For most grass crop species (ie cereals) …

Maize (Zea mays) is an excellent cereal model for research on seed development because
of its relatively large size for both embryo and endosperm. Despite the importance of seed in …

Endosperm is an absorptive structure that supports embryo development or seedling
germination in angiosperms. The endosperm of cereals is a main source of food, feed, and …

Multicellular organisms produce small cysteine‐rich antimicrobial peptides as an innate
defense against pathogens. While defensins, a well‐known class of such peptides, are …

The persistent cereal endosperm constitutes the majority of the grain volume. Dissecting the
gene regulatory network underlying cereal endosperm development will facilitate yield and …

Genomic imprinting causes the expression of an allele depending on its parental origin. In
plants, most imprinted genes have been identified in Arabidopsis endosperm, a transient …

Based on their evolutionary origin, MADS box transcription factor genes have been divided
into two classes, namely, type I and II. The plant-specific type II MIKC MADS box genes have …

Imprinting describes the differential expression of alleles based on their parent of origin.
Deep sequencing of RNAs from maize (Zea mays) endosperm and embryo tissue 14 d after …

Parental genomic imprinting is characterized by the expression of a selected panel of genes
from one of the two parental alleles. Recent evidence shows that DNA methylation and …