What, where, and how: regulation of translation and the translational landscape in plants

HYL Wu, J Jen, PY Hsu - The Plant Cell, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Translation is a crucial step in gene expression and plays a vital role in regulating various
aspects of plant development and environmental responses. It is a dynamic and complex …

A wave of specific transcript and protein accumulation accompanies pollen dehydration

H Sze, B Klodová, JM Ward, JF Harper… - Plant …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In flowering plants, male gametes are immotile and carried by dry pollen grains to the female
organ. Dehydrated pollen is thought to withstand abiotic stress when grains are dispersed …

The peri-germ cell membrane: poorly characterized but key interface for plant reproduction

N Sugi, ARM Calhau, NMA Jacquier… - Nature Plants, 2024 - nature.com
Pollen is the male gametophyte of flowering plants, the typically haploid generation of the
plant life cycle that produces the male gametes. Upon germination, pollen grains extend a …

Lipid anchoring and electrostatic interactions target NOT-LIKE-DAD to pollen endo-plasma membrane

LM Gilles, ARM Calhau, V La Padula… - Journal of Cell …, 2021 - rupress.org
Phospholipases cleave phospholipids, major membrane constituents. They are thus
essential for many developmental processes, including male gamete development. In …

Monogalactosyldiacylglycerol synthase isoforms play diverse roles inside and outside the diatom plastid

N Guéguen, Y Sérès, F Cicéron, V Gros… - The Plant …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Diatoms derive from a secondary endosymbiosis event, which occurred when a eukaryotic
host cell engulfed a red alga. This led to the formation of a complex plastid enclosed by 4 …

From genes to traits: Trends in RNA-binding proteins and their role in plant trait development: A review

S Rehman, S Bahadur, W **a, C Runan, M Ali… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are essential for cellular functions by attaching to RNAs,
creating dynamic ribonucleoprotein complexes (RNPs) essential for managing RNA …

Removal of the endoplasma membrane upon sperm cell activation after pollen tube discharge

N Sugi, R Izumi, S Tomomi, D Susaki… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In pollen and pollen tubes, immotile sperm cells are enclosed by an inner vegetative plasma
membrane (IVPM), a single endomembrane originating from the vegetative-cell plasma …

RNA-binding proteins and their role in translational regulation in plants

JA Duarte-Conde, G Sans-Coll… - Essays in …, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Translation is a fundamental process for life that needs to be finely adapted to the
energetical, developmental and environmental conditions; however, the molecular …

Genome-wide investigation of the LARP gene family: focus on functional identification and transcriptome profiling of ZmLARP6c1 in maize pollen

X **ang, Q Deng, Y Zheng, Y He, D Ji, Z Vejlupkova… - BMC Plant …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Background The La-related proteins (LARPs) are a superfamily of RNA-binding
proteins associated with regulation of gene expression. Evidence points to an important role …

Possible molecular mechanisms of persistent pollen tube growth without de novo transcription

K Motomura, N Sugi, A Takeda, S Yamaoka… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The vegetative cell nucleus proceeds ahead of a pair of sperm cells located beneath the
pollen tube tip during germination. The tip-localized vegetative nucleus had been …