Hong Ma

Cryptic Fate Priming and Lineage Stabilization during Arabidopsis Anther Development.

Plant germ cells are specified de novo from somatic tissues, yet how early anther progenitors initiate divergent germline and somatic fates remains unclear. Here, we generated a high-resolution single-cell transcriptomic atlas of Arabidopsis anther development, profiling 66,864 cells from early lineage specification th...

Zinc-finger proteins C3H14 and C3H15 maintain meiocyte identity in flowering plants.

Large‐scale nuclear and plastid phylogenomic analyses inform an updated Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification: APG V

We present here a revision of the APG classification that considers the extensive recent analyses of hundreds of nuclear and plastid genes for many angiosperm species. Although previous versions of the APG classification were largely based on uniparentally inherited markers (plastid DNA, typically maternally inherited)...

BAM3 Is a CLE19 Receptor that Mediates a Distinct Signaling Branch Controlling Tapetum Degeneration and Pollen Wall Formation.

This work demonstrates how combinatorial peptide-receptor usage expands the signaling capacity of a single developmental peptide to coordinate robust male reproductive development.