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Fertilization recovery system is dependent on the number of pollen grains for efficient reproduction in plants.
Plant signaling & behavior - 1 Apr 2013
Kasahara Ryushiro D, Maruyama Daisuke, Higashiyama Tetsuya
Abstract excerpt
For over a century, plant fertilization has been thought to depend on the fertility of a single pollen tube. However, we reported recently a "fertilization recovery system" in flowering plants that actively rescues failed fertilization of a defective mutant pollen tube by attracting a second, functional pollen tube. In typical flowering plants, two synergid cells beside the egg cell attract pollen tubes, one of...
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