Article
Pollen tube contents from failed fertilization contribute to seed coat initiation in Arabidopsis
2019-04-30
Abstract excerpt
Plant seeds are essential for human beings, constituting 70% of carbohydrate resources worldwide; examples include rice, wheat, and corn. In angiosperms, fertilization of the egg by a sperm cell is required for seed formation; therefore, fertilization failure results in no seed formation, except in the special case of apomixis. Initially, plants produce many pollen grains inside the anthers; once the pollen grain...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 2078f024-89bd-5311-97ef-5396e319f886
- DOI
- 10.12688/f1000research.18644.2