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  • The shoot apical meristem of flowering plants transitions from forming leaves to floral organs. Here Higo et al. show that DNA methylation of many transposons that are hypermethylated in gametes is established in the SAM before flowering, suggesting it protects against harmful transposition long before germ cell differentiation.

    • Asuka Higo
    • Noriko Saihara
    • Hiroyuki Tsuji
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 11, P: 1-12

  • The evolutionary mechanisms leading to the development of sperm are poorly understood. Here, the authors infer that neofunctionalisation and expression changes of the orthologue of DUO1 in algal ancestors of land plants were key events for sperm differentiation and sexual reproduction in this lineage.

    • Asuka Higo
    • Tomokazu Kawashima
    • Takashi Araki
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 9, P: 1-13

  • The gametophyte phase is extremely reduced in angiosperms, reduced to a few haploid cells in flowers. This Perspective discusses recent studies in Marchantia polymorpha that have identified conserved components of gametogenesis.

    • Tetsuya Hisanaga
    • Shohei Yamaoka
    • Frédéric Berger
    Reviews
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 5, P: 663-669