title: Balancing parental contributions in plant embryonic gene activation.
abstract: Little is known about chromatin remodeling events immediately after fertilization. A recent report by Autran et al. (2011) in Cell now shows that chromatin regulatory pathways that silence transposable elements are responsible for global delayed activation of gene expression in the early Arabidopsis embryo.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 94720, USA. danielz@berkeley.edu
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zilberman