ReviewPlant molecular biology2020
Fertilization in flowering plants: an odyssey of sperm cell delivery.
Review in Plant molecular biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.
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- Small Anther, a CPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- A review on the function of arabinogalactan-proteins during pollen grain development.Plant reproduction · 2025Review
- Tracking pollen tube and ovule developmentAoB PLANTS · 2025Article
- The Role of Female and Male Genes in Regulating Pollen Tube Guidance in Flowering Plants.Genes · 2024Review
- An Overview on MADS Box Members in Plants: A Meta-Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Integration analysis of ATAC-seq and RNA-seq provides insight into fatty acid biosynthesis in Schizochytrium limacinum under nitrogen limitation stress.BMC genomics · 2024Article
- Transcriptome analysis of ovules offers early developmental clues after fertilization in3 Biotech · 2023Article
- Discovery of aFrontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- Let's shape again: the concerted molecular action that builds the pollen tube.Plant reproduction · 2022Review
- Autophagy is required for self-incompatible pollen rejection in two transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana accessions.Plant physiology · 2022Article
- IMPERFECTIVE EXINE FORMATION (IEF) is required for exine formation and male fertility in Arabidopsis.Plant molecular biology · 2021Article
- Two aquaporins, SIP1;1 and PIP1;2, mediate water transport for pollen hydration in thePlant biotechnology (Tokyo, Japan) · 2021Article
- Microscopic and Transcriptomic Analysis of Pollination Processes in Self-IncompatiblePlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- The Role of Anaphase-Promoting Complex/Cyclosome (APC/C) in Plant Reproduction.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Review
- Genetic activity during early plant embryogenesis.The Biochemical journal · 2020Review
- Signalling Pinpointed to the Tip: The Complex Regulatory Network That Allows Pollen Tube Growth.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Why so Complex? The Intricacy of Genome Structure and Gene Expression, Associated with Angiosperm Mitochondria, May Relate to the Regulation of Embryo Quiescence or Dormancy-Intrinsic Blocks to Early Plant Life.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
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Abstract
key messageIn light of the available discoveries in the field, this review manuscript discusses on plant reproduction mechanism and molecular players involved in the process. Sperm cells in angiosperms are immotile and are physically distant to the female gametophytes (FG). To secure the production of the next generation, plants have devised a clever approach by which the two sperm cells in each pollen are safely delivered to the female gametophyte where two fertilization events occur (by each sperm cell fertilizing an egg cell and central cell) to give rise to embryo and endosperm. Each of the successfully fertilized ovules later develops into a seed. Sets of macromolecules play roles in pollen tube (PT) guidance, from the stigma, through the transmitting tract and funiculus to the micropylar end of the ovule. Other sets of genetic players are involved in PT reception and in its rupture after it enters the ovule, and yet other sets of genes function in gametic fusion. Angiosperms have come long way from primitive reproductive structure development to today's sophisticated, diverse, and in most cases flamboyant organ. In this review, we will be discussing on the intricate yet complex molecular mechanism of double fertilization and how it might have been shaped by the evolutionary forces focusing particularly on the model plant Arabidopsis.
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