The KLU-PRE module provides positional cues that maintain somatic cell identity around the megasporocyte cell in Arabidopsis.

In most flowering plants, a single hypodermal cell from the ovule primordium differentiates into the megaspore mother cell (MMC) to initiate the female germline. However, how positional cues maintain this cell identity remains unclear. Here, we repor…

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