A conditional sterile mutation eliminates surface components from Arabidopsis pollen and disrupts cell signaling during fertilization.

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Plants distinguish among the pollen grains that land on the stigma, permitting only compatible pollen to fertilize egg cells. To investigate these cell-cell interactions, Arabidopsis mutations that affect pollen-pistil communication were isolated. A male-sterile mutation that disrupts pollen-pistil interactions by eliminating the extracellular pollen coat (tryphine) is described here. Stigma cells that contact...

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