Analyzing the Role of Reactive Oxygen Species in Male-Female Interactions in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Fertilization, both in plants and animals, is at its core, a study of cell to cell communication. With respect to plants, the male gametophyte, the pollen tube, elongates within the female organ called the pistil, transporting in its cytoplasm two sperm cells. The pollen tube is attracted by signals...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2012
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