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A pharmacological study of Arabidopsis cell fusion between the persistent synergid and endosperm.
Journal of cell science - 29 Jan 2018
Motomura Kazuki, Kawashima Tomokazu, Berger Frédéric, Kinoshita Tetsu, Higashiyama Tetsuya, Maruyama Daisuke
Abstract excerpt
Cell fusion is a pivotal process in fertilization and multinucleate cell formation. A plant cell is ubiquitously surrounded by a hard cell wall, and very few cell fusions have been observed except for gamete fusions. We recently reported that the fertilized central cell (the endosperm) absorbs the persistent synergid, a highly differentiated cell necessary for pollen tube attraction. The synergid-endosperm fusion...
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