ArticlePlant reproduction2017
Molecular movement in the Arabidopsis thaliana female gametophyte.
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- Epigenetic Regulation During Plant Development and the Capacity for Epigenetic Memory.Annual review of plant biology · 2023Review
- DNA methylation dynamics during germline development.Journal of integrative plant biology · 2022Review
- Soma-to-germline RNA communication.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2022Review
- Loss of Small-RNA-Directed DNA Methylation in the Plant Cell Cycle Promotes Germline Reprogramming and Somaclonal Variation.Current biology : CB · 2021Article
- RNA-directed DNA Methylation.PLoS genetics · 2020Article
- Fertilization in flowering plants: an odyssey of sperm cell delivery.Plant molecular biology · 2020Review
- Central Cell in Flowering Plants: Specification, Signaling, and Evolution.Frontiers in plant science · 2020Review
- Epigenetic dynamics during flowering plant reproduction: evidence for reprogramming?The New phytologist · 2019Review
- Epigenetic Regulation of Plant Gametophyte Development.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019Review
- Multilayered signaling pathways for pollen tube growth and guidance.Plant reproduction · 2018Review
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Abstract
key messageSize limits on molecular movement among female gametes. Cellular decisions can be influenced by information communicated from neighboring cells. Communication can occur via signaling or through the direct transfer of molecules. Movement of RNAs and proteins has frequently been observed among symplastically connected plant cells. In flowering plants, the female gametes, the egg cell and central cell, are closely apposed within the female gametophyte. Here we investigated the ability of fluorescently labeled dyes and small RNAs to move from the Arabidopsis thaliana central cell to the egg apparatus following microinjection. These results define a size limit of at least 20 kDa for symplastic movement between the two gametes, somewhat larger than that previously observed in Torenia fournieri. Our results indicate that symplastic connectivity in Arabidopsis thaliana changes after fertilization and suggest that prior to fertilization mechanisms are in place to facilitate small RNA movement from the central cell to the egg cell and synergids.
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