ReviewFrontiers in plant science2014
Imprinting in plants as a mechanism to generate seed phenotypic diversity.
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- Genomic dissection of additive and non-additive genetic effects and genomic prediction in an open-pollinated family test of Japanese larch.BMC genomics · 2024Article
- Unveiling the imprinted dance: how parental genomes orchestrate seed development and hybrid success.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Review
- Understanding and overcoming hybrid lethality in seed and seedling stages as barriers to hybridization and gene flow.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Review
- Paternal imprinting of dosage-effect defective1 contributes to seed weight xenia in maize.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Exploring Breakthroughs in Three Traits Belonging to Seed Life.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Epigenetics and epigenomics: underlying mechanisms, relevance, and implications in crop improvement.Functional & integrative genomics · 2020Review
- A high maternal genome excess causes severe seed abortion leading to ovary abscission inPlant direct · 2020Article
- Dissecting the Seed Maturation and Germination Processes in the Non-OrthodoxInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2020Article
- Genetic Screens to Target Embryo and Endosperm Pathways in Arabidopsis and Maize.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2020Article
- Differences in Effective Ploidy Drive Genome-Wide Endosperm Expression Polarization and Seed Failure in Wild Tomato Hybrids.Genetics · 2019Article
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- Cytological analysis of ginseng carpel development.Protoplasma · 2017Article
- Integration of omics approaches to understand oil/protein content during seed development in oilseed crops.Plant cell reports · 2017Review
- Parent-of-Origin-Effect rough endosperm Mutants in Maize.Genetics · 2016Article
- Maternal Gametophyte Effects on Seed Development in Maize.Genetics · 2016Article
- Evidence for maternal control of seed size in maize from phenotypic and transcriptional analysis.Journal of experimental botany · 2016Article
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Abstract
Normal plant development requires epigenetic regulation to enforce changes in developmental fate. Genomic imprinting is a type of epigenetic regulation in which identical alleles of genes are expressed in a parent-of-origin dependent manner. Deep sequencing of transcriptomes has identified hundreds of imprinted genes with scarce evidence for the developmental importance of individual imprinted loci. Imprinting is regulated through global DNA demethylation in the central cell prior to fertilization and directed repression of individual loci with the Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2). There is significant evidence for transposable elements and repeat sequences near genes acting as cis-elements to determine imprinting status of a gene, implying that imprinted gene expression patterns may evolve randomly and at high frequency. Detailed genetic analysis of a few imprinted loci suggests an imprinted pattern of gene expression is often dispensable for seed development. Few genes show conserved imprinted expression within or between plant species. These data are not fully explained by current models for the evolution of imprinting in plant seeds. We suggest that imprinting may have evolved to provide a mechanism for rapid neofunctionalization of genes during seed development to increase phenotypic diversity of seeds.
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