Editorial: Regulation of Pollen Tube Growth. [PDF]
In angiosperms, the pollen tube is a simple system composed of the vegetative cell and the two sperm cells which, nevertheless, accomplishes a very important process, essential for the life of flowering plants on Earth, i.e., sexual reproduction. In its simplicity, the pollen tube allowed plants to reproduce on land, even in the absence of water ...
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Pollen Germination and Pollen Tube Growth in Gymnosperms. [PDF]
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 ...
Breygina M, Klimenko E, Schekaleva O.
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Cell Wall Composition, Biosynthesis and Remodeling during Pollen Tube Growth
The pollen tube is a fast tip-growing cell carrying the two sperm cells to the ovule allowing the double fertilization process and seed setting. To succeed in this process, the spatial and temporal controls of pollen tube growth within the female organ ...
Jean-Claude Mollet +3 more
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Pollen Tube Growth and Self-Compatibility in Almond [PDF]
Although pollen tube growth has been an important criterion for self-compatibility evaluation in almond, there is not a clear-cut separation between positive and negative growth of pollen tubes in the different genotypes.
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Arabidopsis LIM proteins PLIM2a and PLIM2b regulate actin configuration during pollen tube growth
The pollen tube grows rapidly, exclusively at its tip, to deliver its sperm for fertilization. The polarized tip growth of pollen tubes is dependent on the highly dynamic actin cytoskeleton. Plant LIM proteins (named after initials of containing proteins
J. R. Ye, L. M. Zhou, M. L. Xu
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Self S-RNase reduces the expression of two pollen-specific COBRA genes to inhibit pollen tube growth in pear [PDF]
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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WD40-domain protein GORI is an integrative scaffold that is required for pollen tube growth in rice [PDF]
The pollen tube plays a critical role in angiosperm plants by delivering sperm gametes for double fertilization. Although the molecular mechanisms underlying pollen tube germination and growth are crucial to crop plants, they are poorly understood. Here,
Yu-Jin Kim, Ki-Hong Jung
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Possible molecular mechanisms of persistent pollen tube growth without de novo transcription [PDF]
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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The effect of temperature on pollen germination and pollen tube growth of pear cultivars [PDF]
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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Calcium-dependent protein kinases (CPKs) play an essential role in the regulation of pollen tube growth. Although CPK genes have been identified in maize, and some have been functionally characterized, the molecular function of ZmCPKs associated with ...
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