News tagged with pollen tubes

Mildew-resistant and infertile

Two proteins involved in powdery mildew infection in plants also play an important role in fertilization.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 24, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Biologists Unlock Secrets of Plants' Growing Tips

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologist Magdalena Bezanilla and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have used a technique they call multi-gene silencing to, for the first time, simultaneously silence nine genes in a ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Sexual plant reproduction: Male and female talk in the same way as do cells in your brain

A team of researchers at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia (IGC), Portugal, discovered that pollen, the organ that contains the plant male gametes, communicate with the pistil, their female counterpart, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Fertility or powdery mildew resistance?

Powdery mildew is a fungus that infects both crop and ornamental plants. Each year, powdery mildew and other plant pathogens cause immense crop loss. Despite decades of intense research, little is known of the plant molecules ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 12, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Capturing Fast Pollen Tube Growth on Camera, Researchers Pin Down Plant Fertilization Process

(PhysOrg.com) -- Studying pollen tubes, University of Massachusetts Amherst plant cell biologist Peter Hepler and colleagues have captured some of the fastest growing tissues known, on camera for the first time, to advance ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 27, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0