Maybe she's NOT the boss: male-female crosstalk during sexual plant reproduction

Hannes Vogler; Andrea Martinez-Bernardini; Ueli Grossniklaus

doi:10.1186/s13059-016-0972-6

Maybe she's NOT the boss: male-female crosstalk during sexual plant reproduction

Genome Biol. 2016 May 9:17:96. doi: 10.1186/s13059-016-0972-6.

Authors

Hannes Vogler¹, Andrea Martinez-Bernardini², Ueli Grossniklaus²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plant and Microbial Biology and Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008, Zurich, Switzerland. hannes.vogler@botinst.uzh.ch.
² Department of Plant and Microbial Biology and Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008, Zurich, Switzerland.

Abstract

New insights into the molecular dialogue between male and female during sexual plant reproduction show that even plant sex does not work without clear communication.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Comment

MeSH terms

Plant Physiological Phenomena*
Reproduction