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Published on: February 24, 2023
Vesicle trafficking in Arabidopsis pollen tubes
Guang-Jiu Hao1, Xin-Ying Zhao1, Miao-Miao Zhang2
1State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, China.
Abstract:
The delivery of sperm cells via tip-growing pollen tubes is an innovation of seed plants and shows the importance of pollen tubes for reproduction and their specific growth kinetics. Fast-growing pollen tubes demand an extensive and dynamic vesicular trafficking network to build new cell membrane and wall, to deliver proteins among endomembrane compartments, and also to respond to external stimuli for growth adjustment. In this review, we summarize current findings on endomembrane compartments and vesicular trafficking routes of pollen tubes, comparing and contrasting their features with those of most somatic cells. We discuss the importance of membrane homeostasis, either at the plasma membrane (PM) or between PM-targeted trafficking and vacuolar trafficking, for pollen tube growth. We also provide perspectives to facilitate future studies of vesicular trafficking in pollen tubes.
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