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Two Arabidopsis AGC kinases are critical for the polarized growth of pollen tubes.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 May 2009
Zhang Yan, He Junmin, McCormick Sheila
Abstract excerpt
Reproduction of flowering plants requires the growth of pollen tubes to deliver immotile sperm for fertilization. Pollen tube growth resembles that of polarized metazoan cells, in that some molecular mechanisms underlying cell polarization and growth are evolutionarily conserved, including the functions of Rho GTPases and the dynamics of the actin cytoskeleton. However, a role for AGC kinases, crucial signaling...
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