ReviewFrontiers in plant science2016
The Diversity of the Pollen Tube Pathway in Plants: Toward an Increasing Control by the Sporophyte.
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- Pollen Germination and Pollen Tube Growth in Gymnosperms.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Cell Wall Components in the Placentas, Ovules and Female Gametophytes ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
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- Effect of methyl jasmonate on in-vitro pollen germination and tube elongation of Pinus nigra.Protoplasma · 2020Article
- Direct and indirect selection on mate choice during pollen competition: Effects of male and female sexual traits on offspring performance following two-donor crosses.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2020Article
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- Secondary Outcomes of the Ole e 1 Proteins Involved in Pollen Tube Development: Impact on Allergies.Frontiers in plant science · 2020Article
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- Arabinogalactan proteins mediate intercellular crosstalk in the ovule of apple flowers.Plant reproduction · 2019Article
- Bipolar pollen germination in blue spruce (Picea pungens).Protoplasma · 2019Article
- Cysteine-rich peptides promote interspecific genetic isolation inScience (New York, N.Y.) · 2019Article
- Gamete Nuclear Migration in Animals and Plants.Frontiers in plant science · 2019Review
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Abstract
Plants, unlike animals, alternate multicellular diploid, and haploid generations in their life cycle. While this is widespread all along the plant kingdom, the size and autonomy of the diploid sporophyte and the haploid gametophyte generations vary along evolution. Vascular plants show an evolutionary trend toward a reduction of the gametophyte, reflected both in size and lifespan, together with an increasing dependence from the sporophyte. This has resulted in an overlooking of the importance of the gametophytic phase in the evolution of higher plants. This reliance on the sporophyte is most notorious along the pollen tube journey, where the male gametophytes have to travel a long way inside the sporophyte to reach the female gametophyte. Along evolution, there is a change in the scenery of the pollen tube pathway that favors pollen competition and selection. This trend, toward apparently making complicated what could be simple, appears to be related to an increasing control of the sporophyte over the gametophyte with implications for understanding plant evolution.
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