ReviewFrontiers in plant science2015
The male germline of angiosperms: repertoire of an inconspicuous but important cell lineage.
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- Consequences of whole genome duplication for 2n pollen performance.Plant reproduction · 2021Review
- From birth to function: Male gametophyte development in flowering plants.Current opinion in plant biology · 2021Review
- Detection of a biolistic delivery of fluorescent markers and CRISPR/Cas9 to the pollen tube.Plant reproduction · 2021Article
- The Role of Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Response in Pollen Development and Heat Stress Tolerance.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Review
- Pollen-Specific Protein PSP231 Activates Callose Synthesis to Govern Male Gametogenesis and Pollen Germination.Plant physiology · 2020Article
- Epigenetic marks in the Hyacinthus orientalis L. mature pollen grain and during in vitro pollen tube growth.Plant reproduction · 2016Article
- Mechanisms of endosperm initiation.Plant reproduction · 2016Review
- Male gametophyte development and function in angiosperms: a general concept.Plant reproduction · 2016Review
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Abstract
The male germline of flowering plants constitutes a specialized lineage of diminutive cells initiated by an asymmetric division of the initial microspore cell that sequesters the generative cell from the pollen vegetative cell. The generative cell subsequently divides to form the two male gametes (non-motile sperm cells) that fuse with the two female gametophyte target cells (egg and central cells) to form the zygote and endosperm. Although these male gametes can be as little as 1/800th of the volume of their female counterpart, they encode a highly distinctive and rich transcriptome, translate proteins, and display a novel suite of gamete-distinctive control elements that create a unique chromatin environment in the male lineage. Sperm-expressed transcripts also include a high proportion of transposable element-related sequences that may be targets of non-coding RNA including miRNA and silencing elements from peripheral cells. The number of sperm-encoded transcripts is somewhat fewer than the number present in the egg cell, but are remarkably distinct compared to other cell types according to principal component and other analyses. The molecular role of the male germ lineage cells is just beginning to be understood and appears more complex than originally anticipated.
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