Geometric and mechanical guidance: Role of stigmatic epidermis in early pollen tube pathfinding in arabidopsis. [PDF]
PLoS Computational BiologyIn Arabidopsis thaliana, successful fertilisation relies on the precise guidance of the pollen tube as it navigates through the female tissues to deliver sperm cells to ovules.
Lucie Riglet +4 more
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Possible molecular mechanisms of persistent pollen tube growth without de novo transcription [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 The vegetative cell nucleus proceeds ahead of a pair of sperm cells located beneath the pollen tube tip during germination. The tip-localized vegetative nucleus had been considered to play a pivotal role in the control of directional pollen tube growth ...
Kazuki Motomura +6 more
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Self S-RNase reduces the expression of two pollen-specific COBRA genes to inhibit pollen tube growth in pear [PDF]
Molecular Horticulture, 2023 Due to self-incompatibility (SI) prevents self-fertilization, natural or artificial cross-pollination has been conducted in many orchards to stabilize fruit yield.
Lei Wu +8 more
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Immunofluorescence Labeling of Pollen Tubes
Bio-Protocol, 2014 Pollen tube is regarded as an excellent single-cell model system in plant cell studies. This protocol describes the use of a rapid and reliable immunofluorescence labeling method for studying in situ localization of proteins in pollen tubes.
Hao Wang, Liwen Jiang
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Pollen Germination and Pollen Tube Growth in Gymnosperms [PDF]
Plants, 2021 Pollen germination and pollen tube growth are common to all seed plants, but these processes first developed in gymnosperms and still serve for their successful sexual reproduction. The main body of data on the reproductive physiology, however, was obtained on flowering plants, and one should be careful to extrapolate the discovered patterns to ...
Maria Breygina +2 more
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MYB97, MYB101 and MYB120 function as male factors that control pollen tube-synergid interaction in Arabidopsis thaliana fertilization. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2013 Pollen tube reception involves a pollen tube-synergid interaction that controls the discharge of sperm cells into the embryo sac during plant fertilization.
Yan Liang +8 more
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Penetration of the stigma and style elicits a novel transcriptome in pollen tubes, pointing to genes critical for growth in a pistil. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2009 Pollen tubes extend through pistil tissues and are guided to ovules where they release sperm for fertilization. Although pollen tubes can germinate and elongate in a synthetic medium, their trajectory is random and their growth rates are slower compared ...
Yuan Qin +8 more
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The effect of temperature on pollen germination and pollen tube growth of pear cultivars [PDF]
Journal of Agricultural Sciences (Belgrade), 2016 The effect of three different temperatures (8, 16 and 24°C) on pollen germination and length of pollen tube in vitro was investigated in four pear cultivars (‘Butirra Precoce Morettini’, ‘Williams’, ‘Conference’ and ‘Abate Fetel’).
Radović Aleksandar R. +3 more
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The Arabidopsis thaliana Class II Formin FH13 Modulates Pollen Tube Growth
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Formins are a large, evolutionarily conserved family of actin-nucleating proteins with additional roles in regulating microfilament, microtubule, and membrane dynamics.
Eva Kollárová +2 more
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Annexin5 plays a vital role in Arabidopsis pollen development via Ca2+-dependent membrane trafficking. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The regulation of pollen development and pollen tube growth is a complicated biological process that is crucial for sexual reproduction in flowering plants.
Jingen Zhu +6 more
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