An international group of plant biologists discovered for the first time on how factors arising from the mother and father in flowering plants cooperate to develop the shape of their child. Until now, ...

In multicellular animals and plants the single-celled zygote develops into the embryo. However, observation of zygote division in living material in real time is difficult owing to the restricted ...

An international group of plant biologists has succeeded for the first time in visualizing how egg cells in plants divides unequally (asymmetric cell division) after being fertilized. The direction of ...

The phenomenon of parent-of-origin effects is well documented in animal embryogenesis. In flowering plants, however, only a few cases of maternal control of embryogenesis have been identified and, ...

The process of embryogenesis begins with an egg or ovum being fertilized by a sperm cell to form a zygote. The zygote is a single diploid cell, which will ultimately multiply through mitotic division ...