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Plant reproduction: GABA gradient, guidance and growth
1Department of Biology and the Huck Institute for Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802, USA. hxm16@psu.edu
Current Biology : CB
|November 1, 2003
Abstract:
How a pollen tube manages to navigate through the female tissues during plant reproduction has been a mystery. A new analysis of an Arabidopsis mutant has provided the strongest evidence yet that a GABA gradient may be a critical signal for correct targeting of the pollen tube.