Pollen tube and root-hair tip growth is disrupted in a mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana.

Abstract excerpt

The expansion of both root hairs and pollen tubes occurs by a process known as tip growth. In this report, an Arabidopsis thaliana mutant (tip1) is described that displays defects in both root-hair and pollen-tube growth. The root hairs of the tip1 mutant plants are shorter than those of the wild...

Topics

• Arabidopsis
• Genes, Plant
• Morphogenesis
• Mutation
• Phenotype
• Seeds