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ArticleThe Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology2025

Establishment and maintenance of embryogenic cell fate during microspore embryogenesis.

Charlotte Siemons, Sven Jonkers, Redmar Cornelis Vlieg, Patricia Corral-Martínez, John van Noort, Kim Boutilier

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Article in The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. A Method for Detecting Parthenogenesis in Asteraceae Species.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Charlotte SiemonsBioscience, Wageningen University & Research, P.O. Box 16, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Sven JonkersBiological and Soft Matter Physics, Huygens-Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333 CA, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Redmar Cornelis VliegBiological and Soft Matter Physics, Huygens-Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333 CA, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Patricia Corral-MartínezBioscience, Wageningen University & Research, P.O. Box 16, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
John van NoortBiological and Soft Matter Physics, Huygens-Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333 CA, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Kim BoutilierBioscience, Wageningen University & Research, P.O. Box 16, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-6110-5939

Funding

HORIZON EUROPE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions 656579NWO Building Blocks of Life 737.016.013ZonMw 435005024
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microspore embryogenesis is a type of in vitro totipotency in which the immature male gametophyte (pollen) develops into a haploid embryo after an abiotic stress treatment. In Brassica napus, heat-stress treatment of male gametophytes induces the development of different types of multicellular embryogenic structures, each with different cellular characteristics and the capacity to form a differentiated embryo. The origin and early development of these different embryogenic structures have not been determined. We used two-photon excitation fluorescence microscopy and time-lapse imaging of cells expressing either a LEAFY COTYLEDON1 (LEC1) embryo identity reporter or a DR5v2 auxin response reporter to follow the development of embryogenic structures starting at the single- to few-cell stage. We show for the first time that the developmental fate of embryogenic structures is defined by the symmetry of the first embryogenic division and that the division plane also predicts the timing of subsequent pollen wall (exine) rupture: suspensorless embryos develop after a symmetric division and undergo late exine rupture, while suspensor-bearing embryos and embryogenic callus develop after an asymmetric division and undergo early exine rupture. Live imaging also captured previously unknown dynamic LEC1 and DR5v2 expression patterns that are associated with changes in exine integrity. This study highlights the developmental plasticity of cultured pollen and uncovers new roles for the first embryogenic cell division plane and the exine in defining and maintaining cell fate during microspore embryogenesis.

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Brassica napusPollenSeedsCell DifferentiationGene Expression Regulation, PlantIndoleacetic AcidsPlant ProteinsTime-Lapse ImagingIndoleacetic AcidsPlant ProteinsauxinBrassica napuscell division planecell fateDR5v2LEAFY COTYLEDON1microspore embryogenesistotipotency

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PMID39981724
PMCPMC11843592

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