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Efficient plant male fertility depends on vegetative nuclear movement mediated by two families of plant outer nuclear membrane proteins.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 12 Aug 2014
Zhou Xiao, Meier Iris
Abstract excerpt
Increasing evidence suggests that nuclear migration is important for eukaryotic development. Although nuclear migration is conserved in plants, its importance for plant development has not yet been established. The most extraordinary plant nuclear migration events involve plant fertilization, which is starkly different from that of animals. Instead of evolving self-propelled sperm cells (SCs), plants use pollen...
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