Category: Paper of the Month

Paper of the month (March 2011)

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Occurrence of unique three-celled megagametophyte and single fertilization in an aquatic angiosperm-Dalzellia zeylanica (Podostemaceae-Tristichoideae) Anita Sehgal1, Jitendra P. Khurana2, Minakshi Sethi1 and Hussain Ara3(1) Department of Botany, Miranda House, University of Delhi, Delhi, 110007, India(2) Interdisciplinary Centre for Plant Genomics and Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, 110021, India(3)…Continue Reading Paper of the month (March 2011)

Paper of the month (July 2010)

Haploid plant

Haploid plants produced by centromere-mediated genome elimination Maruthachalam Ravi & Simon W. L. Chan* Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA *Corresponding author: Simon W. L. Chan (Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to S.W.L.C. (srchan@ucdavis.edu).) Refernce: Nature 464, 615-618 (25 March 2010) doi:10.1038/nature08842 Summary Production of haploid plants…Continue Reading Paper of the month (July 2010)

Paper of the month (August 2007)

NTT PT

The NTT Gene Is Required for Transmitting-Tract Development in Carpels of Arabidopsis thaliana Brian C.W. Crawford, Gary Ditta and Martin F. Yanofsky Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093. Current Biology , Vol. 17, 1101-1108, July 2007 Summary Background The majority of pollen-tube growth in Arabidopsis occurs in specialized…Continue Reading Paper of the month (August 2007)

Paper of the month (July 2007)

Arabidopsis hapless Mutations Define Essential Gametophytic Functions . Mark A. Johnson, Kiera von Besser, Qing Zhou, EvadneSmith, George Aux, David Patton, Joshua Z. Levin, and Daphne Preuss * Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637. Genetics, Vol. 168, 971-982, October 2004 . Abstract: In flowering…Continue Reading Paper of the month (July 2007)

Paper of the month (May 2007)

Parent-Dependent Loss of Gene Silencing during Interspecies Hybridization Caroline Josefsson, Brian Dilkes and Luca Comai Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 Current Biology, 16: 1322-1328 (2006) Abstract: Speciation depends on the establishment of reproductive barriers that allow populations to diverge from each other. Such divergence may involve protein sequence, copy number, or expression changes…Continue Reading Paper of the month (May 2007)

Paper of the month (January 2007)

Arabidopsis microRNA167 controls patterns of ARF6 and ARF8 expression, and regulates both female and male reproduction. Miin-Feng Wu, Qing Tian* and Jason W. Reed University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Biology, CB #3280, Coker Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280, USA. Development 133, 4211-4218 (2006) Abstract: In flowering plants, diploid sporophytic tissues in ovules…Continue Reading Paper of the month (January 2007)

Paper of the month (October 2006)

A plant peptide encoded by CLV3 identified by in situ MALDI-TOF MS analysis. Kondo T, Sawa S, Kinoshita A, Mizuno S, Kakimoto T, Fukuda H, Sakagami Y. Graduate School of Bio-Agricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan. Science 2006 Aug 11; 313(5788):773-4. Abstract: The Arabidopsis CLAVATA3 (CLV3) gene encodes a stem cell-specific protein presumed to be…Continue Reading Paper of the month (October 2006)

Paper of the month (August 2006)

A positive signal from the fertilization of the egg cell sets off endosperm proliferation in angiosperm embryogenesis Nowack MK, Grini PE, Jakobyl MJ, Lafos M, Koncz C and Schnittger A* * Unigruppe am Max-Planck-Institu fur zuchtungsforschung, Max- Delbruck-Laboratorium, Lehrstuhl fur Botanik III, Universitat Koln, Carl-von-Linne-Weg 10, D-50829 Koln, Germany. Nature Genetics 38: 63 – 67. Abstract: Double…Continue Reading Paper of the month (August 2006)

Paper of the month (May 2006)

The mRNA of the Arabidopsis Gene FT Moves from Leaf to Shoot Apex and Induces Flowering Umea Plant Science Centre, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, S-90183, Umea, Sweden. Science 309: 1694 – 1696. Abstract: Day length controls flowering time in many plants. The day-length signal is perceived in…Continue Reading Paper of the month (May 2006)