Using maize as a model to study pollen tube growth and guidance, cross-incompatibility and sperm delivery in grasses

Life after meiosis: patterning the angiosperm male gametophyte

(2010) Michael Borg et al.   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

Female gametophyte-controlled pollen tube guidance: Figure 1

(2010) Mihaela-Luiza Márton et al.   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

Sporophytic control of pollen tube growth and guidance in grasses

(2010) Andreas Lausser et al.   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

Mechanistic insights from a quantitative analysis of pollen tube guidance

(2010) Shannon F Stewman et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Sperm entry is sufficient to trigger division of the central cell but the paternal genome is required for endosperm development in Arabidopsis

(2010) S. J. Aw et al.   DEVELOPMENT

STUDIES ON SELF-STERILITY IN RYE, SECALE CEREALE L

(2010) ARNE LUNDQVIST   HEREDITAS

Pollen-pistil interactions and the endomembrane system

(2010) A. Kumar et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The pollen S-determinant in Papaver: comparisons with known plant receptors and protein ligand partners

(2010) M. J. Wheeler et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Pollen-pistil interactions regulating successful fertilization in the Brassicaceae

(2010) L. A. Chapman et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The Zea mays Sexual Compatibility Gene ga2: Naturally Occurring Alleles, Their Distribution, and Role in Reproductive Isolation

(2010) Jerry L. Kermicle et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

A role for LORELEI, a putative glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored protein, in Arabidopsis thaliana double fertilization and early seed development

(2010) Tatsuya Tsukamoto et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Migration of sperm cells during pollen tube elongation in Arabidopsis thaliana: behavior during transport, maturation and upon dissociation of male germ unit associations

(2010) Lili Ge et al.   PLANTA

Defensin-Like ZmES4 Mediates Pollen Tube Burst in Maize via Opening of the Potassium Channel KZM1

(2010) Suseno Amien et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

ANXUR1 and 2, Sister Genes to FERONIA/SIRENE, Are Male Factors for Coordinated Fertilization

(2009) Saori Miyazaki et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The two male gametes share equal ability to fertilize the egg cell in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2009) Mathieu Ingouff et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Micropylar pollen tube guidance and burst: adapted from defense mechanisms?

(2009) Thomas Dresselhaus et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Disruption of the pollen-expressed FERONIA homologs ANXUR1 and ANXUR2 triggers pollen tube discharge

(2009) A. Boisson-Dernier et al.   DEVELOPMENT

The role of ion fluxes in polarized cell growth and morphogenesis: the pollen tube as an experimental paradigm

(2009) Erwan Michard et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Sporophytic control of pollen tube growth and guidance in maize

(2009) Andreas Lausser et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The tobacco MAP215/Dis1-family protein TMBP200 is required for the functional organization of microtubule arrays during male germline establishment

(2009) S. A. Oh et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

SeaView Version 4: A Multiplatform Graphical User Interface for Sequence Alignment and Phylogenetic Tree Building

(2009) M. Gouy et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Defensin-like polypeptide LUREs are pollen tube attractants secreted from synergid cells

(2009) Satohiro Okuda et al.   NATURE

Identification of genes expressed during the self-incompatibility response in perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.)

(2009) Bicheng Yang et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Fine-scale comparative genetic and physical mapping supports map-based cloning strategies for the self-incompatibility loci of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.)

(2009) Hiroshi Shinozuka et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Advancing Cell Biology and Functional Genomics in Maize Using Fluorescent Protein-Tagged Lines

(2009) A. Mohanty et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Fine-Tuning of the Cytoplasmic Ca2+ Concentration Is Essential for Pollen Tube Growth

(2009) M. Iwano et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Expressing the Diphtheria Toxin A Subunit from the HAP2(GCS1) Promoter Blocks Sperm Maturation and Produces Single Sperm-Like Cells Capable of Fertilization

(2009) A. C. Frank et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

The B73 Maize Genome: Complexity, Diversity, and Dynamics

(2009) P. S. Schnable et al.   SCIENCE

Class B β-expansins are needed for pollen separation and stigma penetration

(2009) Elene R. Valdivia et al.   SEXUAL PLANT REPRODUCTION

Distribution of calcium in the stigma and style of tobacco during pollen germination and tube elongation

(2009) Li Li Ge et al.   SEXUAL PLANT REPRODUCTION

Penetration of the Stigma and Style Elicits a Novel Transcriptome in Pollen Tubes, Pointing to Genes Critical for Growth in a Pistil

(2009) Yuan Qin et al.   PLoS Genetics

Evolution of reproductive isolation in plants

(2008) A Widmer et al.   HEREDITY

Self-incompatibility systems: barriers to self-fertilization in flowering plants

(2008) Anne C. Rea et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Molecular and genetic characterization of the S locus in Hordeum bulbosum L., a wild self-incompatible species related to cultivated barley

(2008) Katsuyuki Kakeda et al.   MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS

How far are we from unravelling self-incompatibility in grasses?

(2008) Bicheng Yang et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Maternal Control of Male-Gamete Delivery in Arabidopsis Involves a Putative GPI-Anchored Protein Encoded by the LORELEI Gene

(2008) A. Capron et al.   PLANT CELL

TheMYB98subcircuit of the synergid gene regulatory network includes genes directly and indirectly regulated by MYB98

(2008) Jayson A. Punwani et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Insights into corn genes derived from large-scale cDNA sequencing

(2008) Nickolai N. Alexandrov et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Comparative Transcriptomics of Arabidopsis Sperm Cells

(2008) F. Borges et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Gametophytic pollen tube guidance

(2008) Tetsuya Higashiyama et al.   SEXUAL PLANT REPRODUCTION

Double fertilization – caught in the act

(2008) Frédéric Berger et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

The Peroxin Loss-of-Function Mutation abstinence by mutual consent Disrupts Male-Female Gametophyte Recognition

(2007) Aurélien Boisson-Dernier et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY