ArticleNature communications2014
Live imaging of calcium spikes during double fertilization in Arabidopsis.
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- Evidence of a novel silencing effect on transgenes in the Arabidopsis thaliana sperm cell.The Plant cell · 2023Article
- Removal of the endoplasma membrane upon sperm cell activation after pollen tube discharge.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- RALF signaling pathway activates MLO calcium channels to maintain pollen tube integrity.Cell research · 2023Article
- The egg cell is preferentially fertilized in Arabidopsis double fertilization.Journal of integrative plant biology · 2022Article
- A receptor-channel trio conducts CaNature · 2022Article
- RALF peptide signaling controls the polytubey block inScience (New York, N.Y.) · 2022Article
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- In Vitro Fertilization System Using Wheat Gametes by Electric Fusion.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Development and regeneration of wheat-rice hybrid zygotes produced by in vitro fertilization system.The New phytologist · 2021Article
- Designs, applications, and limitations of genetically encoded fluorescent sensors to explore plant biology.Plant physiology · 2021Review
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Abstract
Ca(2+) waves and oscillation are key signalling elements during the fertilization process of animals, and are involved, for example, in egg activation. In the unique double fertilization process in flowering plants, both the egg cell and the neighbouring central cell fuse with a sperm cell each. Here we succeeded in imaging cytosolic Ca(2+) in these two cells, and in the two synergid cells that accompany the gametes during semi-in vivo double fertilization. Following pollen tube discharge and plasmogamy, the egg and central cells displayed transient Ca(2+) spikes, but not oscillations. Only the events in the egg cell correlated with the plasmogamy. In contrast, the synergid cells displayed Ca(2+) oscillations on pollen tube arrival. The two synergid cells showed distinct Ca(2+) dynamics depending on their respective roles in tube reception. These Ca(2+) dynamics in the female gametophyte seem to represent highly specific signatures that coordinate successful double fertilization in the flowering plants.
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