“…The event is finely orchestrated at the genetic and epigenetic levels (Folsom et al, ). CMT3 (Folsom et al, ; Lindroth et al, ), DRM3 (Sharma et al, ), KRP3 (Mizutani, Naganuma, Tsutsumi, & Saitoh, ), and several type‐I MADS‐box transcription factors, MADS78 , MADS 79 , MADS 87 , and MADS 89 (Chen et al, ; Folsom et al, ; Kang, Steffen, Portereiko, Lloyd, & Drews, ; Paul et al, ; Steffen, Kang, Portereiko, Lloyd, & Drews, ), show expression specific to the syncytial phase, and decline with the progression of cellularization. Thus, we referred these as syncytial‐associated genes (Figure ).…”