MeSH Review:
Flowers
- A pollen tube growth stimulatory glycoprotein is deglycosylated by pollen tubes and displays a glycosylation gradient in the flower. Wu, H.M., Wang, H., Cheung, A.Y. Cell (1995)
- The mechanisms of pollination and fertilization in plants. Lord, E.M., Russell, S.D. Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol. (2002)
- Loosening of plant cell walls by expansins. Cosgrove, D.J. Nature (2000)
- Pollen tube development and competitive ability are impaired by disruption of a Shaker K(+) channel in Arabidopsis. Mouline, K., Véry, A.A., Gaymard, F., Boucherez, J., Pilot, G., Devic, M., Bouchez, D., Thibaud, J.B., Sentenac, H. Genes Dev. (2002)
- A Rho family GTPase controls actin dynamics and tip growth via two counteracting downstream pathways in pollen tubes. Gu, Y., Fu, Y., Dowd, P., Li, S., Vernoud, V., Gilroy, S., Yang, Z. J. Cell Biol. (2005)
- A plant plasma membrane Ca2+ pump is required for normal pollen tube growth and fertilization. Schiøtt, M., Romanowsky, S.M., Baekgaard, L., Jakobsen, M.K., Palmgren, M.G., Harper, J.F. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (2004)
- Actin polymerization is essential for pollen tube growth. Vidali, L., McKenna, S.T., Hepler, P.K. Mol. Biol. Cell (2001)
- Osmotically induced cell swelling versus cell shrinking elicits specific changes in phospholipid signals in tobacco pollen tubes. Zonia, L., Munnik, T. Plant Physiol. (2004)
- Antisense phenotypes reveal a role for SHY, a pollen-specific leucine-rich repeat protein, in pollen tube growth. Guyon, V., Tang, W.H., Monti, M.M., Raiola, A., Lorenzo, G.D., McCormick, S., Taylor, L.P. Plant J. (2004)
- Self-incompatibility genotypes in almond re-evaluated by PCR, stylar ribonucleases, sequencing analysis and controlled pollinations. López, M., Mnejja, M., Rovira, M., Collins, G., Vargas, F.J., Arús, P., Batlle, I. Theor. Appl. Genet. (2004)
- VANGUARD1 encodes a pectin methylesterase that enhances pollen tube growth in the Arabidopsis style and transmitting tract. Jiang, L., Yang, S.L., Xie, L.F., Puah, C.S., Zhang, X.Q., Yang, W.C., Sundaresan, V., Ye, D. Plant Cell (2005)
- An ankyrin repeat-containing protein, characterized as a ubiquitin ligase, is closely associated with membrane-enclosed organelles and required for pollen germination and pollen tube growth in lily. Huang, J., Chen, F., Del Casino, C., Autino, A., Shen, M., Yuan, S., Peng, J., Shi, H., Wang, C., Cresti, M., Li, Y. Plant Physiol. (2006)
- Molecular cloning and mRNA localization of tomato pollen profilin. Yu, L.X., Nasrallah, J., Valenta, R., Parthasarathy, M.V. Plant Mol. Biol. (1998)
- Transmitting tissue ECM distribution and composition, and pollen germinability in Sarcandra glabra and Chloranthus japonicus (Chloranthaceae). Hristova, K., Lam, M., Feild, T., Sage, T.L. Ann. Bot. (2005)
- Cytoskeletal organisation and modification during pollen tube arrival, gamete delivery and fertilisation in Plumbago zeylanica. Huang, B.Q., Pierson, E.S., Russell, S.D., Tiezzi, A., Cresti, M. Zygote (1993)
- A floral transmitting tissue-specific glycoprotein attracts pollen tubes and stimulates their growth. Cheung, A.Y., Wang, H., Wu, H.M. Cell (1995)
- A lily stylar pectin is necessary for pollen tube adhesion to an in vitro stylar matrix. Mollet, J.C., Park, S.Y., Nothnagel, E.A., Lord, E.M. Plant Cell (2000)
- A potential signaling role for profilin in pollen of Papaver rhoeas. Clarke, S.R., Staiger, C.J., Gibbon, B.C., Franklin-Tong, V.E. Plant Cell (1998)
- A cysteine-rich extracellular protein, LAT52, interacts with the extracellular domain of the pollen receptor kinase LePRK2. Tang, W., Ezcurra, I., Muschietti, J., McCormick, S. Plant Cell (2002)
- Oscillatory chloride efflux at the pollen tube apex has a role in growth and cell volume regulation and is targeted by inositol 3,4,5,6-tetrakisphosphate. Zonia, L., Cordeiro, S., Tupý, J., Feijó, J.A. Plant Cell (2002)
- MYB98 is required for pollen tube guidance and synergid cell differentiation in Arabidopsis. Kasahara, R.D., Portereiko, M.F., Sandaklie-Nikolova, L., Rabiger, D.S., Drews, G.N. Plant Cell (2005)
- Pollen tube localization implies a role in pollen-pistil interactions for the tomato receptor-like protein kinases LePRK1 and LePRK2. Muschietti, J., Eyal, Y., McCormick, S. Plant Cell (1998)
- Plant clathrin heavy chain: sequence analysis and restricted localisation in growing pollen tubes. Blackbourn, H.D., Jackson, A.P. J. Cell. Sci. (1996)
- Successive glycosyltransfer activity and enzymatic characterization of pectic polygalacturonate 4-alpha-galacturonosyltransferase solubilized from pollen tubes of Petunia axillaris using pyridylaminated oligogalacturonates as substrates. Akita, K., Ishimizu, T., Tsukamoto, T., Ando, T., Hase, S. Plant Physiol. (2002)
- Alternative methods of plant transformation--a short review. Rakoczy-Trojanowska, M. Cell. Mol. Biol. Lett. (2002)