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A species-specific functional module controls formation of pollen apertures.
Nature plants - 1 Jul 2021
Lee Byung Ha, Wang Rui, Moberg Ingrid M, Reeder Sarah H, Amom Prativa, Tan Michelle H, Amstutz Katelyn, Chandna Pallavi, Helton Adam, Andrianova Ekaterina P, Zhulin Igor B, Dobritsa Anna A
Abstract excerpt
Pollen apertures are an interesting model for the formation of specialized plasma-membrane domains. The plant-specific protein INP1 serves as a key aperture factor in such distantly related species as Arabidopsis, rice and maize. Although INP1 orthologues probably play similar roles throughout flowering plants, they show substantial sequence divergence and often cannot substitute for each other, suggesting that...
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