Control of Male Gametophyte Development

From: Plant Cell | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: McCormick, Sheila | Copyright information

INTRODUCTION

In a previous review of male gametophyte development (McCormick, 1993), it was noted that the two areas posed by Mascarenhas (1975) as fruitful areas for future research were the following. What are the differences in the two cytoplasms that determine the different cell fates of the generative and vegetative cells? And what are the functions of pollen-specific proteins? Now, 10 years later, the genome sequences of Arabidopsis and rice have been completed. There are extensi...

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