Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Clearance of maternal barriers by paternal miR159 to initiate endosperm nuclear division in Arabidopsis

  • Youshang Zhao,
  • Songyun Wang,
  • Wenye Wu,
  • Lei Li,
  • Ting Jiang,
  • Binglian Zheng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07429-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Seed development in plants is triggered by entry of sperm to the ovule. Here, Zhao et al. uncover miR159 as a paternal-trigger of seed development that is transmitted to the central cell where it represses expression of maternal targets to promote nuclear division in the endosperm.