It seems like the chromatin architecture is
reorganized after fertilization, and that this reorganization happens differentially for the maternal and the paternal genomes,» explained Johanna Gassler, PhD student at IMBA and one of the first authors of the study.
The group succeeded in visualizing for the first time, how the cytoskeleton of plant egg cells is disassembled
after fertilization and then
reorganized to create a polarity in the cell that eventually leads to asymmetric cell division.