The persistent triploid endosperms of cereal crops are the most important source of human
food and animal feed. The development of cereal endosperms progresses through …

Histone methylation plays a fundamental role in regulating diverse developmental
processes and is also involved in silencing repetitive sequences in order to maintain …

The BABY BOOM (BBM) AINTEGUMENTA-LIKE (AIL) AP2/ERF domain transcription factor
is a major regulator of plant cell totipotency, as it induces asexual embryo formation when …

The Arabidopsis thaliana central cell, the companion cell of the egg, undergoes DNA
demethylation before fertilization, but the targeting preferences, mechanism, and biological …

A history of exposure to a range of different types of stress alters subsequent plant
responses. The process of priming or hardening involves prior exposure to a biotic or an …

Under appropriate in vivo or in vitro conditions, certain somatic plant cells have the
capability to initiate embryogenic development (somatic embryogenesis). Somatic …

Flowering is controlled by environmental conditions and developmental regulation. The
complexity of this regulation is created by an intricate network of signaling pathways …

We isolated mutations in Arabidopsis to understand how the female gametophyte controls
embryo and endosperm development. For the DEMETER (DME) gene, seed viability …

Apomixis (asexual seed formation) is the result of a plant gaining the ability to bypass the
most fundamental aspects of sexual reproduction: meiosis and fertilization. Without the need …

At a certain point in their life cycle, annual plants undergo a major developmental transition
and switch from vegetative to reproductive development. This process is rarely reversible …