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DNA demethylation is important for imprinted gene expression in maize endosperm but may do more

Gent et al. characterize a classical maize mutant and find insights into genomic imprinting and DNA methylation in endosperm Jonathan I. Gent, Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA  Background: In 1970, Jerry Kermicle reported that maize kernels could have…

We’re just not compatible…. Plant species with different parenting strategies can’t quite coordinate in rearing hybrid babies

Kinser and colleagues explore the transcriptomic, genomic and epigenomic consequences of mixing two genomes with the same number or twice as many chromosomes in monkeyflower.  By Taliesin Kinser (University of Florida) and Joshua Puzey (College of William and Mary) Background: Flowering plants…