Close in the pollen-tube attractant

Tetsuya Higashiyama; Yuki Hamamura

doi:10.5685/plmorphol.18.29

Tetsuya Higashiyama, Yuki Hamamura

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Keywords: pollen tube guidance, attractant, synergid cell

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2006 Volume 18 Issue 1 Pages 29-33

DOI https://doi.org/10.5685/plmorphol.18.29

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Published: 2006 Received: - Available on J-STAGE: June 28, 2010 Accepted: - Advance online publication: - Revised: -
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Date of correction: June 28, 2010 Reason for correction: - Correction: AUTHOR Details: Wrong : Tetsuya Higashiyama⁴⁾⁵⁾⁶⁾, Yuki Hamamura⁴⁾
Right : Tetsuya Higashiyama¹⁾²⁾³⁾, Yuki Hamamura¹⁾

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4) 1Graduate School of Sciences, University of Tokyo
5) 2 CREST ,JST
6) 3(Present Address)Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University

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1) Graduate School of Sciences, University of Tokyo
2) CREST ,JST
3) Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University

Date of correction: June 28, 2010 Reason for correction: - Correction: KEYWORD Details: Wrong : Key words: pollen tube guidance, attractant, synergid cell
Right : pollen tube guidance, attractant, synergid cell

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Abstract

Summary: The pollen-tube attractant was first proposed in the late nineteenth century. Pollen tubes were observed to grow toward excised pistil tissues on the medium. Since then, for about 150 years, many plant biologists tried but failedto identify the attractant. Such difficulty also made some plant biologists to cast doubt on the existence of the attractant. In this decade, however, it was shown that the diffusible pollen-tube attractant navigated the directional growth of the pollen tube. Here we review the characteristics of the pollen-tube attractant to figure out the necessary and sufficient conditions as the true chemoattractant of the pollen tube.

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