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Pollen Tube Discharge Completes the Process of Synergid Degeneration That Is Initiated by Pollen Tube-Synergid Interaction in Arabidopsis.
Plant physiology - 1 Sept 2015
Leydon Alexander R, Tsukamoto Tatsuya, Dunatunga Damayanthi, Qin Yuan, Johnson Mark A, Palanivelu Ravishankar
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In flowering plant reproduction, pollen tube reception is the signaling system that results in pollen tube discharge, synergid degeneration, and successful delivery of male gametes (two sperm cells) to the site where they can fuse with female gametes (egg cell and central cell). Some molecules required for this complex and essential signaling exchange have been identified; however, fundamental questions about the...
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