ReviewFrontiers in plant science2020
Central Cell in Flowering Plants: Specification, Signaling, and Evolution.
Review in Frontiers in plant science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Molecular understanding of plant pollination, fertilization, seed development and protoplast regeneration.Science China. Life sciences · 2026Review
- Nuclear Entanglement: New Insights Into the Role of Cytoskeleton and Nucleoskeleton in Plant Nuclear Function.Cytoskeleton (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026Review
- Navigating the Semantic Labyrinth of "Sex" in the Study of Reproductive Trait Evolution.Integrative and comparative biology · 2026Article
- The Role of Female and Male Genes in Regulating Pollen Tube Guidance in Flowering Plants.Genes · 2024Review
- Central cell: the key to determine persistent pollen tube attraction or termination.Science China. Life sciences · 2024Article
- Oat species and interspecific amphiploids show predominance of diploid nuclei in the syncytial endosperm.Journal of applied genetics · 2024Article
- Re-imagining Reproduction: The Queer Possibilities of Plants.Integrative and comparative biology · 2023Article
- The phenomenon of autonomous endosperm in sexual and apomictic plants.Journal of experimental botany · 2023Review
- CKI1-ARRs specify the central cell in Arabidopsis.The Plant cell · 2022Article
- Polyspermy Block in the Central Cell During Double Fertilization ofFrontiers in plant science · 2020Article
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Abstract
During the reproduction of animals and lower plants, one sperm cell usually outcompetes the rivals to fertilize a single egg cell. But in flowering plants, two sperm cells fertilize the two adjacent dimorphic female gametes, the egg and central cell, respectively, to initiate the embryo and endosperm within a seed. The endosperm nourishes the embryo development and is also the major source of nutrition in cereals for humankind. Central cell as one of the key innovations of flowering plants is the biggest cell in the multicellular haploid female gametophyte (embryo sac). The embryo sac differentiates from the meiotic products through successive events of nuclear divisions, cellularization, and cell specification. Nowadays, accumulating lines of evidence are raveling multiple roles of the central cell rather than only the endosperm precursor. In this review, we summarize the current understanding on its cell fate specification, intercellular communication, and evolution. We also highlight some key unsolved questions for the further studies in this field.
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