American Journal of Botany, Vol. 62, No. 2 (Feb., 1975), pp. 105-115 (11 pages) This investigation begins with the late zygote and traces ultrastructural development to the late globular stage of the ...

Researchers have found that the ancestral role of the proteins KNOX and BELL is activation of zygote development in a model basal land plant species, functioning in much the same way as in a ...

Embryogenesis in the Fucales serves as a model system for studying the acquisition of cellular and developmental polarity. Fertilized eggs bear no asymmetry, yet within 16 hours, a developmental axis ...

Scientists from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School have discovered that the expression of one gene in a single gamete can initiate the cascade of events normally associated with ...

Ikoma, Japan – Sometimes in research, just as in other areas of life, answers to fundamental questions can be sitting in plain sight. Researchers from Japan have discovered a key piece of the puzzle ...