Researchers develop a method to select eggs with the best chance of leading to successful pregnancy
... ultimately led to successful pregnanciesi.e. good eggsto cells surrounding ovules that did not result in pregnancy. This comparison led to the identification...he method developed by Sirards team makes it possible to objectively select ovules that have the best chance of success without altering the integrity of the ...Protecting cells from their neighbors
...irst hours after fertilisation, the fate of its future development is determined. It is dictated by the separation of cells that will become sperm and ovules - germ cells-, from the remaining cells, which will be responsible for forming the body organs and tissues -, and that comprise the somatic cell line....Chloroplast f and m Thioredoxins Discovered in Nonphotosynthetic Tissues
...s that these TRX types may function as messengers or in the regulation of transporter molecules. The proteins were also found in pea seeds and in the ovules and pollen grains of flowers in regions of active cell division, where the f and m TRX types may function in redox regulation or in protection against...The secret love life of plants
...sation, which creates an embryo, also triggers the development of endosperm, even when the central cell where endosperm develops is not fertilised.The ovules of flowering plants are housed in a carpel. Pollen lands on the flower's stigma and forms a pollen tube. It then uses each one of its two sperm cells ...Divergent mating systems and parental conflict as a barrier to hybridization in flowering plants
...ve imbalance can explain a common pattern of unilateral incompatibility, in which pollen from self-incompatible populations can successfully fertilize ovules of self-compatible individuals, but the reciprocal cross fails. Since both pre- and post-zygotic consequences of this imbalanced conflict can perturb ...