Researchers led by Dr. LI Hongju from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed that the female gamete in flowering plants controls ...

image: Pollen tube in Arabidopsis thaliana. A study showing how pollen tubes grow into flowers to reach the ovule paves the way for the improvement of food crop varieties as well as a deeper ...

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.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Direct pollen interactions, as well as interactions mediated by a recipient, can have a remarkable influence on pollen fertilization ability.

In the flowering plant world, reproduction means an intricate succession of events. It begins when a pollen grain that carries the sperm cells lands on the top of the pistil, the female reproductive ...

When a particle of plant pollen lands on a female flower, its journey is not done. The pollen, which typically contains two sperm cells and a sperm transport vehicle called the pollen tube cell, ...

You might think flowers don't have much choice about who they mate with, given they are rooted to the ground and can't move. Most mammals and humans have a double set of chromosomes—and as a rule, ...

You might think flowers don't have much choice about who they mate with, given they are rooted to the ground and can't move. Most mammals and humans have a double set of chromosomes—and as a rule, ...