Arabidopsis thaliana is the lab rat of plant sciences. Mutants tweaked in certain genes can show the effects of hormones on plants, but it can be hard to change one response without changing some others. How do plants...
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Alun Salt
Establishing the cell biology of apomixis in Boechera
The genus Boechera (Brassicaceae) is comprised of both sexual and apomictic species, permitting comparative analyses of meiotic disturbances and parthenogenesis. Hybridization, polyploidy and environmental adaptation...
Alex Assiry
Effects of sucrose depletion on pollen tube growth
Pollen tubes are rapidly growing, photosynthetically inactive cells that need high rates of energy to support growth. Energy can derive from internal and external storage sources. The lack of carbon sources can cause...
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Histopathology of the whip-shaped sorus in sugarcane
Sugarcane smut is a fungal disease caused by Sporisorium scitamineum, which is responsible for losses in sugarcane production worldwide. Infected plants show a profound metabolic modification resulting in the...
Morphogenesis and contact sites in lobed mesophyll cells
A study of morphogenesis of lobed MCs of Zea mays finds that it is characterized by early, patterned differentiation of two distinct cell wall subdomains.
Microsporogenesis of monosulcate pollen grains in monocots
Microsporogenesis in 30 species belonging to eight monocot families, and five different pathways associated with the production of monosulcate pollen grains
