ReviewFrontiers in plant science2020
Mechanics of Pollen Tube Elongation: A Perspective.
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- NtLLG4-mediated unconventional polar exocytosis of NtPPME1 coordinates cell wall rigidity and membrane dynamics to control pollen tube integrity.Science advances · 2025Article
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- Callose deficiency modulates plasmodesmata frequency and extracellular distance in rice pollen mother and tapetal cells.Annals of botany · 2024Article
- The Role of Female and Male Genes in Regulating Pollen Tube Guidance in Flowering Plants.Genes · 2024Review
- Potent pollen gene regulation by DNA glycosylases in maize.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Cell Membrane Tension Gradients, Membrane Flows, and Cellular Processes.Physiology (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Review
- Sterols and Sphingolipids as New Players in Cell Wall Building and Apical Growth ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Nanoporous silica gel can compete with the flower stigma in germinating and attracting pollen tubes.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Two Is Company, but Four Is a Party-Challenges of Tetraploidization for Cell Wall Dynamics and Efficient Tip-Growth in Pollen.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- The Role of Calcium/Calcium-Dependent Protein Kinases Signal Pathway in Pollen Tube Growth.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Review
- Investigating the Mechanism of Unilateral Cross Incompatibility in Longan (Frontiers in plant science · 2021Article
- Phylogenetic and Structural Analyses of VPS13 Proteins in Archaeplastida Reveal Their Complex Evolutionary History in Viridiplantae.Contact (Thousand Oaks (Ventura County, Calif.))Article
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Abstract
Pollen tube (PT) serves as a vehicle that delivers male gametes (sperm cells) to a female gametophyte during double fertilization, which eventually leads to the seed formation. It is one of the fastest elongating structures in plants. Normally, PTs traverse through the extracellular matrix at the transmitting tract after penetrating the stigma. While the endeavor may appear simple, the molecular processes and mechanics of the PT elongation is yet to be fully resolved. Although it is the most studied "tip-growing" structure in plants, several features of the structure (e.g., Membrane dynamics, growth behavior, mechanosensing etc.) are only partially understood. In many aspects, PTs are still considered as a tissue rather than a "unique cell." In this review, we have attempted to discuss mainly on the mechanics behind PT-elongation and briefly on the molecular players involved in the process. Four aspects of PTs are particularly discussed: the PT as a cell, its membrane dynamics, mechanics of its elongation, and the potential mechanosensors involved in its elongation based on relevant findings in both plant and non-plant models.
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