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Live-cell analysis of plant reproduction: live-cell imaging, optical manipulation, and advanced microscopy technologies.
Development, growth & differentiation - 1 May 2013
Kurihara Daisuke, Hamamura Yuki, Higashiyama Tetsuya
Abstract excerpt
Sexual reproduction ensures propagation of species and enhances genetic diversity within populations. In flowering plants, sexual reproduction requires complicated and multi-step cell-to-cell communications among male and female cells. However, the confined nature of plant reproduction processes, which occur in the female reproductive organs and several cell layers of the pistil, limits our ability to observe...
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