title: Development: a pathway to plant female germ cells.
abstract: Plant germ cells form late in development, but little is known about the molecular basis for germline specification in plants. Recent results have identified components of a regulatory pathway controlling female germ cell determination, including a key transcription factor and some putative signaling proteins.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Institute of Plant Biology, Center for Evolutionary Biology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
authors.forename: Yingxiang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ma
mesh_terms: D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000166:cytology / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D056771:Ovule