Mildew-resistant and infertile
Two proteins involved in powdery mildew infection in plants also play an important role in fertilization.
Biotechnology
Nov 24, 2010
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News tagged with pollen tubes
Calcium and reproduction go together
Everyone's heard of the birds and the bees. But that old expression leaves out the flowers that are being fertilized. The fertilization process for flowering plants is particularly complex and requires extensive communication ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 22, 2014
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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 ...
Biotechnology
Nov 12, 2010
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Discovery and synthesis of AMOR sugar chains that guide pollen tube growth
A group of scientists at Nagoya University has succeeded in discovering AMOR, a sugar chain molecule that increases the fertilization efficiency in plants. AMOR was found to be responsible for activating pollen tubes to lead ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 8, 2016
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Scientists uncover the 'romantic journey' of plant reproduction
Researchers in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology (PMB) have uncovered the intricate molecular processes that precede reproduction in flowering plants.
Plants & Animals
Jul 11, 2022
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Microchip proves tightness provokes precocious sperm release
Sperm cell release can be triggered by tightening the grip around the delivery organ, according to a team of nano and microsystems engineers and plant biologists at the University of Montreal and Concordia University.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 29, 2013
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Addition of sugars plays a key developmental role in distantly related plants
Adding a spoonful of sugar to coffee makes it sweeter, but in plants, researchers have discovered, the addition of sugar molecules to particular proteins plays a surprising variety of roles in basic developmental processes.
Biotechnology
Nov 20, 2015
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No need to fertilize, for increase in seed sizeĀ
Plant biologists at ITbM have made a key discovery that the contents in pollen tubes alone can increase the size of seeds, without the need for fertilization. This finding may be useful in developing crops, which can develop ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 14, 2016
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Sex in plants requires thrust
In a paper to be published in the September 2018 issue of TECHNOLOGY, the thrust produced by the microscopic organ delivering sperm cells in plants has now been measured using microfluidic technology. A team of nano and microsystems ...
Ecology
Aug 21, 2018
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Researchers identify a pair of receptors essential to male-female plant communications
Two groups of plant molecular biologists, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Peking University, China, have long studied how pollen tubes and pistils, the male and female parts of flowers, communicate to achieve ...
Biotechnology
Dec 14, 2017
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