Mechanics of Pollen Tube Elongation: A Perspective

Pollen tube (PT) serves as a vehicle that delivers male gametes (sperm cells) to a female gametophyte during double fertilization, which eventually leads to the seed formation. It is one of the fastest elongating structures in plants. Normally, PTs traverse through the extracellular matrix at the tr...

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Main Authors: Prakash Babu Adhikari, Xiaoyan Liu, Ryushiro D. Kasahara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2020.589712/full