Plant Reproduction: AMOR Enables Males to Respond to Female Signals

Thomas Dresselhaus; Silvia Coimbra

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.019

Plant Reproduction: AMOR Enables Males to Respond to Female Signals

Curr Biol. 2016 Apr 25;26(8):R321-3. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.019.

Authors

Thomas Dresselhaus¹, Silvia Coimbra²

Affiliations

¹ Cell Biology and Plant Biochemistry, Biochemie-Zentrum Regensburg, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstraße 31, 93053 Regensburg, Germany. Electronic address: thomas.dresselhaus@ur.de.
² Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal.

PMID: 27115687
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.019

Abstract

The pollen tube of flowering plants undertakes a long journey to transport two sperm cells for double fertilization. New work on pollen tube guidance has identified an arabinogalactan-derived ovular factor that primes tubes to respond to female gametophyte-secreted attraction signals.

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MeSH terms

Female
Fertilization
Magnoliopsida
Ovule*
Pollen Tube*
Pollination
Reproduction