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Proline is required for male gametophyte development in Arabidopsis.
BMC plant biology - 12 Dec 2012
Mattioli Roberto, Biancucci Marco, Lonoce Chiara, Costantino Paolo, Trovato Maurizio
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In crosses between the proline-deficient mutant homozygous for p5cs1 and heterozygous for p5cs2 (p5cs1 p5cs2/P5CS2), used as male, and different Arabidopsis mutants, used as females, the p5cs2 mutant allele was rarely transmitted to the outcrossed progeny, suggesting that the fertility of the male gametophyte carrying mutations in both P5CS1 and P5CS2 is severely compromised. RESULTS: To confirm the...
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