Imprinting in the endosperm: a possible role in preventing wide hybridization.

Journal article

Reproductive isolation is considered to play a key part in evolution, and plants and animals have developed a range of strategies that minimize gene flow between species. In plants, these strategies involve either pre-zygotic barriers, such as differences in floral structure and pollen-stigma recognition, or post-zygotic barriers, which are less well understood and affect aspects of seed development ranging from fertilization to maturation. In most angiosperms, a double fertilization event gi...

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Authors: Gutierrez-Marcos, J; Pennington, P; Costa, L; Dickinson, H

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
• Volume: 358
• Issue: 1434
• Pages: 1105-1111
• Publication date: 2003-06-01
• DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1292
• EISSN: 1471-2970
• ISSN: 0962-8436
• Language: English
• Keywords: Crosses, Genetic; Hybridization, Genetic; Genome, Plant; Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; Genomic Imprinting; Seeds