Plant sperm need a little help

J Zhang, JF Pinello, WJ Snell - Nature plants, 2019 - nature.com
little help from two conserved, short, multi-pass integral membrane proteins DMP8 and DMP9.
Fertilization is reduced over 2-fold in Arabidopsis mutants lacking sperm… mutant sperm that …

The tailored sperm cell

L Alvarez - Journal of plant research, 2017 - Springer
… of plant sperm is firmly stablished, and these sperm cells are lacking a characteristic cell wall,
fluorescent indicators have … sequence of signalling events underlying chemotaxis in plants. …

Polyspermy barriers in plants: from preventing to promoting fertilization

M Spielman, RJ Scott - Sexual Plant Reproduction, 2008 - Springer
… and fucoid algae, have relatively high sperm:egg ratios while in … plants, few sperm have
access to each egg. The lowest ratio of sperm to female gametes, 1:1, is found in flowering plants

Sperm delivery in flowering plants: the control of pollen tube growth

KL Wilsen, PK Hepler - Bioscience, 2007 - academic.oup.com
… not only necessary for sexual reproduction in flowering plants but … sperm of flowering plants
have no flagella, they do not depend on water to transport them to the ovule, as do the sperm

Antibodies to flowering-plant sperm

D Southworth, S Kwiatkowski, AR Smith, H Sharpless… - Protoplasma, 1999 - Springer
… Over the past four years, we have succeeded in overcoming the difficulties of using an … ,
have identified antibodies to plant sperm cells. In this study, we used purified whole sperm as the …

Vegetative and sperm cell-specific aquaporins of Arabidopsis highlight the vacuolar equipment of pollen and contribute to plant reproduction

MM Wudick, DT Luu, C Tournaire-Roux… - Plant …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
… to plant reproduction. Pollen grains of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) contain a large
vegetative cell and two smaller sperm … vacuoles of the vegetative and sperm cells, respectively. …

Boosting autophagy in sexual reproduction: a plant perspective

S Li, H Yan, WM Mei, YC Tse, H Wang - New Phytologist, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… fusion of the sperm and egg cell. Distinct from dynamic and flagellated animal sperm cells,
higher flowering plant sperm cells are immotile. Therefore, plants have evolved a novel …

Within-ejaculate sperm competition

A Sutter, S Immler - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… we have been facing to study within-ejaculate sperm competition, and how novel technologies
may help in … plants and mammals suggests that competition and selection among sibling …

[PDF][PDF] The sausage plant (Kigelia africana): Have we finally discovered a male sperm booster

OO Azu - Journal of Medicinal Plant Research, 2013 - academicjournals.org
… Our world harbors a rich source of medicinal plants which … plant, Kigelia pinnata, is a
multipurpose medicinal plant with … Benth with a view to its future development as a male sperm

Male fertility under environmental stress: Do polyamines act as pollen tube growth protectants?

I Aloisi, C Piccini, G Cai, S Del Duca - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
… Although cold stress responses in plants have been extensively studied, there are few
investigations into the effect of cold stress on pollen development and function [92], contrary to …