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"Love Is Strong, and You're so Sweet": JAGGER Is Essential for Persistent Synergid Degeneration and Polytubey Block in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Molecular plant - 4 Apr 2016
Pereira Ana Marta, Nobre Margarida Sofia, Pinto Sara Cristina, Lopes Ana Lúcia, Costa Mário Luís, Masiero Simona, Coimbra Sílvia
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Successful double fertilization and subsequent seed development in flowering plants requires the delivery of two sperm cells, transported by a pollen tube, into the embryo sac of an ovule. The embryo sac cells tightly control synergid cell death, and as a result the polyspermy block. Arabinogalactan proteins are highly glycosylated proteins thought to be involved in several steps of the reproductive process. We...
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