We published the results of an international collaboration with the University of Geneva on eLIFE. Prof. Luis Lopez-Molina has been studied the parent-of-origin effect in seed dormancy, which is controlled by the endosperm during seed germination in Arabidopsis thaliana. In this study, they identified many maternally expressed imprinted genes and a small numbers of paternally expressed imprinted genes in the mature endosperm. Some of them are related to the maternal inheritance of seed dormancy. We participated in experiments related to the imprinted FWA gene.

I first recognized that FWA is expressed in the germinating seeds many years ago (Kinoshita 2004) and was delighted to see how this original observation has been expanded to provide new insight into regulatory mechanisms in seed dormancy.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28005006

Tetsu Kinoshita