Maternal and paternal genomes contribute equally to the transcriptome of early plant embryos.

ABSTRACT: In animals, maternal gene products deposited into eggs regulate embryonic development before activation of the zygotic genome. In plants, an analogous period of prolonged maternal control over embryogenesis is thought to occur based on some gene-expression studies. However, other gene-expression studies and genetic analyses show that some transcripts must derive from the early zygotic genome, implying that the prevailing model does not fully explain the nature of zygotic genome activation in plants. To determine the maternal, paternal and zygotic contributions to the early embryonic transcriptome, we sequenced the transcripts of hybrid embryos from crosses between two polymorphic inbred lines of Arabidopsis thaliana and used single-nucleotide polymorphisms diagnostic of each parental line

SUBMITTER: Nodine MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3477627 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature