The zygotic transition, from a fertilized egg to an embryo, is central to animal and plant
reproduction. Animal embryos depend upon maternally provided factors until zygotic …

Fertilization constitutes a critical step in the plant life cycle during which the gamete
genomes undergo chromatin dynamics in preparation for embryogenesis. In mammals …

Key message A detailed, step-by-step protocol for isolation of rice gametes for
transcriptional profiling, with a general workflow that includes controls for RNA …

Fertilization in higher plants induces many structural and physiological changes in the
fertilized egg, and represents the transition from the haploid female gamete to the diploid …

开花植物精细胞的发育经历一个独特的后减数分裂过程, 在此过程中每个花粉母细胞减数分裂的
产物——小孢子经不对称有丝分裂产生1 个大的营养细胞和1 个小的生殖细胞 …

Due to the difficulty in accessing to gametes and zygotes in flowering plants, which are
controlled in single cells deeply embedded in multiple tissues, little is known about how the …

Isolated sperm cells and egg cells provide useful materials for the study of fertilization in
higher plants, under controlled conditions, in the absence of somatic tissue. Viable egg cells …

In flowering plants, sperm cell development involves a special postmeiotic process. During
the process, each microspore generated by pollen mother-cell meiosis undergoes …

Key message Sperm cells can be isolated from the mature pollen grains of medicinal wild
rice (Oryza officinalis) using an osmotic shock method, and the viable egg cells can be …