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Plant biology

Turning fields into grains

Nature volume 408, pages 39–41 (2000)Cite this article

Cereal seeds contain an embryo and an endosperm, which is used as a food source. Differentiation of the endosperm is guided by several 'positional' molecular cues throughout development.

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Figure 1: Deciding the fate of seed endosperm cells.

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