ArticlePlant reproduction2021
Flowering plant embryos: How did we end up here?
Article in Plant reproduction, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Development of the embryo and ruminate endosperm in an early-divergent angiosperm, Asimina triloba (Annonaceae).Annals of botany · 2025Article
- Developmental phylotranscriptomics in grapevine suggests an ancestral role of somatic embryogenesis.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Phytomers, collet and founder cells: a "universal" plant embryonic body plan from a developmental, molecular, and evolutionary perspective.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Review
- The maternal embrace: the protection of plant embryos.Journal of experimental botany · 2024Review
- Characterisation and Expression Analysis of LdSERK1, a Somatic Embryogenesis Gene inPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Major and stably expressed QTL for traits related to the mature wheat embryo independent of kernel size.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2023Article
- MS1/MMD1 homologues in the moss Physcomitrium patens are required for male and female gametogenesis.The New phytologist · 2022Article
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Abstract
The seeds of flowering plants are sexually produced propagules that ensure dispersal and resilience of the next generation. Seeds harbor embryos, three dimensional structures that are often miniatures of the adult plant in terms of general structure and primordial organs. In addition, embryos contain the meristems that give rise to post-embryonically generated structures. However common, flowering plant embryos are an evolutionary derived state. Flowering plants are part of a much larger group of embryo-bearing plants, aptly termed Embryophyta. A key question is what evolutionary trajectory led to the emergence of flowering plant embryos. In this opinion, we deconstruct the flowering plant embryo and describe the current state of knowledge of embryos in other plant lineages. While we are far yet from understanding the ancestral state of plant embryogenesis, we argue what current knowledge may suggest and how the knowledge gaps may be closed.
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