Sperm cells of flowering plants are non-motile and thus require transportation to the egg
apparatus via the pollen tube to execute double fertilization. During its journey, the pollen …

Pollen-pistil interactions serve as important prezygotic reproductive barriers that play a
critical role in mate selection in plants. Here, we highlight recent progress toward …

For more than 140 years, pollen tube guidance in flowering plants has been thought to be
mediated by chemoattractants derived from target ovules. However, there has been no …

Genes directly involved in male/female and host/parasite interactions are believed to be
under positive selection. The flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana has more than 300 …

During sexual reproduction of flowering plants, pollen tube guidance by pistil tissue is critical
for the delivery of nonmotile sperm cells to female gametes. Multistep controls of pollen tube …

Hybridisation between individuals of different species can lead to maladapted or inviable
progeny due to genetic incompatibilities between diverging species. On the other hand …

Precise directional control of pollen-tube growth by pistil tissue is critical for successful
fertilization of flowering plants [1–3]. Ovular attractant peptides, which are secreted from two …

Pollen tube guidance in flowering plants is a unique and critical process for successful
sexual reproduction. The pollen tube that grows from pollen, which is the male gametophyte …

In flowering plants, fertilization is unique because it involves two pairs of male and female
gametes, a process known as double fertilization. Here, we provide an overview of the field …

In the Brassicaceae, the acceptance of compatible pollen and the rejection of self-
incompatible pollen by the pistil involves complex molecular communication systems …