Volume 25, No 1, Jan 2015

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 25 Issue 1, January 2015: 7-8

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Spore formation in plants: SPOROCYTELESS and more

Li Yuan¹ and Venkatesan Sundaresan^1,2

¹Department of Plant Biology, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
²Department of Plant Biology and Plant Sciences, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA Correspondence: Venkatesan Sundaresan,(sundar@ucdavis.edu)

Plant reproduction is initiated by the specification of sporocytes that form haploid spores through meiosis. A new study in Arabidopsis published in Cell Research shows how the product of SPOROCYTELESS/NOZZLE, a key gene in this process, partners with co-repressors and transcription factors to promote spore formation, and draws interesting parallels with fungi.

10.1038/cr.2014.164

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