NIH R01 · 2024
Deciphering Male- and Female-coordinated Gating Mechanisms that Ensure Plant Reproductive Success
Project Summary Reproduction in flowering plants depends on multiple male (pollen)-female (pistil) interactive steps to deliver sperm, which are non-motile and transported as cytoplasmic cargos by the pollen tube through several specialized pistil tissues to the female target for fertilization, leading to seed production. The proposed research addresses key cell-cell communicative events in three distinct prezygotic (i.e. prior to sperm-egg fusion) phases during the pollen/pollen tube journey in the pistil to enable fertilization. Long- term efforts in our lab have set discovery milestones for the field and recently elucidated key molecular players in each of these phases, providing…
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