We isolated a pollen-defective mutant, collapsed abnormal pollen1 (cap1), from Tos17 insertional mutant lines of rice (Oryza sativa). The cap1 heterozygous plant produced equal numbers of normal and ...
Jing Yu, Zhaolu Meng, Wanqi Liang, Smrutisanjita Behera, Jörg Kudla, Matthew R. Tucker, Zhijing Luo, Mingjiao Chen, Dawei Xu, Guochao Zhao, Jie Wang, Siyi Zhang, Yu-Jin Kim and Dabing Zhang In ...
Rapid alkalinization factors (RALFs) are required for pollen tube germination and elongation, an essential process in plant fertilization. But their role in monocot plants remains unexplored.
Double fertilization is a complex mechanism in flowering plants, wherein two sperm cells fuse with the embryo sac. To achieve this, pollens released from anthers must interact with the plant’s stigma, ...