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ReviewPlant, cell & environment2014

The impact of environmental stress on male reproductive development in plants: biological processes and molecular mechanisms.

Nico De Storme, Danny Geelen

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Review in Plant, cell & environment, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 206 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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206citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
8.8field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

206 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 483 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nico De StormeDepartment of Plant Production, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, University of Ghent, Coupure Links, 653, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium.
Danny Geelen
Ghent University · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In plants, male reproductive development is extremely sensitive to adverse climatic environments and (a)biotic stress. Upon exposure to stress, male gametophytic organs often show morphological, structural and metabolic alterations that typically lead to meiotic defects or premature spore abortion and male reproductive sterility. Depending on the type of stress involved (e.g. heat, cold, drought) and the duration of stress exposure, the underlying cellular defect is highly variable and either involves cytoskeletal alterations, tapetal irregularities, altered sugar utilization, aberrations in auxin metabolism, accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS; oxidative stress) or the ectopic induction of programmed cell death (PCD). In this review, we present the critically stress-sensitive stages of male sporogenesis (meiosis) and male gametogenesis (microspore development), and discuss the corresponding biological processes involved and the resulting alterations in male reproduction. In addition, this review also provides insights into the molecular and/or hormonal regulation of the environmental stress sensitivity of male reproduction and outlines putative interaction(s) between the different processes involved.

Indexed as

Gametogenesis, PlantPlant DevelopmentStress, PhysiologicalAbscisic AcidCell DivisionEnvironmentGene Expression Regulation, PlantMeiosisOxidative StressPlant Growth RegulatorsPlantsPollenReactive Oxygen SpeciesReproductionAbscisic AcidPlant Growth RegulatorsReactive Oxygen SpeciesABA(a)biotic stressinvertasemale gametogenesismale sterilitymeiosissugar metabolismtapetum

Identifiers

PMID23731015
PMCPMC4280902
OpenAlexW1729859419

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