scholarly journals Cajal Bodies Are Developmentally Regulated during Pollen Development and Pollen Tube Growth in Arabidopsis thaliana

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 1355-1357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regina Scarpin ◽  
Lorena Sigaut ◽  
Lia Pietrasanta ◽  
Sheila McCormick ◽  
Binglian Zheng ◽  
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Genetics ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 158 (4) ◽  
pp. 1773-1783 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonia Procissi ◽  
Solveig de Laissardière ◽  
Madina Férault ◽  
Daniel Vezon ◽  
Georges Pelletier ◽  
...  

Abstract Mutant analysis represents one of the most reliable approaches to identifying genes involved in plant development. The screening of the Versailles collection of Arabidopsis thaliana T-DNA insertion transformants has allowed us to isolate different mutations affecting male gametophytic functions and viability. Among several mutated lines, five have been extensively studied at the genetic, molecular, and cytological levels. For each mutant, several generations of selfing and outcrossing have been carried out, leading to the conclusion that all these mutations are tagged and affect only the male gametophyte. However, only one out of the five mutations is completely penetrant. A variable number of T-DNA copies has integrated in the mutant lines, although all segregate at one mutated locus. Two mutants could be defined as “early mutants”: the mutated genes are presumably expressed during pollen grain maturation and their alteration leads to the production of nonfunctional pollen grains. Two other mutants could be defined as “late mutant” since their pollen is able to germinate but pollen tube growth is highly disturbed. Screening for segregation ratio distortions followed by thorough genetic analysis proved to be a powerful tool for identifying gametophytic mutations of all phases of pollen development.


Genes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Weimiao Liu ◽  
Liai Xu ◽  
Hui Lin ◽  
Jiashu Cao

The growth of plant cells is inseparable from relaxation and expansion of cell walls. Expansins are a class of cell wall binding proteins, which play important roles in the relaxation of cell walls. Although there are many members in expansin gene family, the functions of most expansin genes in plant growth and development are still poorly understood. In this study, the functions of two expansin genes, AtEXPA4 and AtEXPB5 were characterized in Arabidopsis thaliana. AtEXPA4 and AtEXPB5 displayed consistent expression patterns in mature pollen grains and pollen tubes, but AtEXPA4 also showed a high expression level in primary roots. Two single mutants, atexpa4 and atexpb5, showed normal reproductive development, whereas atexpa4atexpb5 double mutant was defective in pollen tube growth. Moreover, AtEXPA4 overexpression enhanced primary root elongation, on the contrary, knocking out AtEXPA4 made the growth of primary root slower. Our results indicated that AtEXPA4 and AtEXPB5 were redundantly involved in pollen tube growth and AtEXPA4 was required for primary root elongation.


Author(s):  
Laetitia Poidevin ◽  
Javier Forment ◽  
Dilek Unal ◽  
Alejandro Ferrando

ABSTRACTPlant reproduction is one key biological process very sensitive to heat stress and, as a consequence, enhanced global warming poses serious threats to food security worldwide. In this work we have used a high-resolution ribosome profiling technology to study how heat affects both the transcriptome and the translatome of Arabidopsis thaliana pollen germinated in vitro. Overall, a high correlation between transcriptional and translational responses to high temperature was found, but specific regulations at the translational level were also present. We show that bona fide heat shock genes are induced by high temperature indicating that in vitro germinated pollen is a suitable system to understand the molecular basis of heat responses. Concurrently heat induced significant down-regulation of key membrane transporters required for pollen tube growth, thus uncovering heat-sensitive targets. We also found that a large subset of the heat-repressed transporters is specifically up-regulated, in a coordinated manner, with canonical heat-shock genes in pollen tubes grown in vitro and semi in vivo, based on published transcriptomes from Arabidopsis thaliana. Ribosome footprints were also detected in gene sequences annotated as non-coding, highlighting the potential for novel translatable genes and translational dynamics.


2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdousse Laggoun ◽  
Flavien Dardelle ◽  
Jérémy Dehors ◽  
Denis Falconet ◽  
Azeddine Driouich ◽  
...  

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianling Peng ◽  
Hilal Ilarslan ◽  
Eve Wurtele ◽  
Diane C Bassham

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 295-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Till Ischebeck ◽  
Luis Valledor ◽  
David Lyon ◽  
Stephanie Gingl ◽  
Matthias Nagler ◽  
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