ArticlePlant signaling & behavior2010
Establishment of the male germline and sperm cell movement during pollen germination and tube growth in maize.
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- The male germ unit association is independently regulated of GUM inPlant direct · 2024Article
- Heat shock: Impact of moderate temperature on pollen development in maize.Plant physiology · 2024Article
- Heat stress at the bicellular stage inhibits sperm cell development and transport into pollen tubes.Plant physiology · 2024Article
- Genetic control of generative cell shape by DUO1 in Arabidopsis.Plant reproduction · 2023Article
- The legacy of kinesins in the pollen tube 30 years later.Cytoskeleton (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2022Review
- Lipid anchoring and electrostatic interactions target NOT-LIKE-DAD to pollen endo-plasma membrane.The Journal of cell biology · 2021Article
- Mechanics of Pollen Tube Elongation: A Perspective.Frontiers in plant science · 2020Review
- Sperm cells are passive cargo of the pollen tube in plant fertilization.Nature plants · 2017Article
- Polyspermy barriers: a plant perspective.Current opinion in plant biology · 2017Review
- Germline-specific MATH-BTB substrate adaptor MAB1 regulates spindle length and nuclei identity in maize.The Plant cell · 2012Article
- Female gametophyte development and double fertilization in Balsas teosinte, Zea mays subsp. parviglumis (Poaceae).Sexual plant reproduction · 2011Article
- Using maize as a model to study pollen tube growth and guidance, cross-incompatibility and sperm delivery in grasses.Annals of botany · 2011Review
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Abstract
Two sperm cells are required to achieve double fertilization in flowering plants (angiosperms). In contrast to animals and lower plants such as mosses and ferns, sperm cells of flowering plants (angiosperms) are immobile and are transported to the female gametes (egg and central cell) via the pollen tube. The two sperm cells arise from the generative pollen cell either within the pollen grain or after germination inside the pollen tube. While pollen tube growth and sperm behaviour has been intensively investigated in model plant species such as tobacco and lily, little is know about sperm dynamics and behaviour during pollen germination, tube growth and sperm release in grasses. In the March issue of Journal of Experimental Botany, we have reported about the sporophytic and gametophytic control of pollen tube germination, growth and guidance in maize.1 Five progamic phases were distinguished involving various prezygotic crossing barriers before sperm cell delivery inside the female gametophyte takes place. Using live cell imaging and a generative cell-specific promoter driving α-tubulin-YFP expression in the male germline, we report here the formation of the male germline inside the pollen grain and the sperm behaviour during pollen germination and their movement dynamics during tube growth in maize.
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