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Wild tomato endosperm transcriptomes reveal common roles of genomic imprinting in both nuclear and cellular endosperm

Roth, Morgane ; Florez-Rueda, Ana M. ; Paris, Margot ; Städler, Thomas

In: The Plant Journal, 2018, vol. 95, no. 6, p. 1084–1101

Genomic imprinting is a conspicuous feature of the endosperm, a triploid tissue nurturing the embryo and synchronizing angiosperm seed development. An unknown subset of imprinted genes (IGs) is critical for successful seed development and should have highly conserved functions. Recent genome‐wide studies have found limited conservation of IGs among distantly related species, but there is a...

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Incidence and developmental timing of endosperm failure in post-zygotic isolation between wild tomato lineages

Roth, Morgane ; Florez-Rueda, Ana M. ; Griesser, Stephan ; Paris, Margot ; Städler, Thomas

In: Annals of Botany, 2018, vol. 121, no. 1, p. 107–118

Background and AimsDefective hybrid seed development in angiosperms might mediate the rapid establishment of intrinsic post-zygotic isolation between closely related species. Extensive crosses within and among three lineages of wild tomatoes (Solanum section Lycopersicon) were performed to address the incidence, developmental timing and histological manifestations of hybrid seed failure....