Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Pollen tube emergence is mediated by ovary-expressed ALCATRAZ in cucumber

  • Zhihua Cheng,
  • Xiaofeng Liu,
  • Shuangshuang Yan,
  • Bin Liu,
  • Yanting Zhong,
  • Weiyuan Song,
  • Jiacai Chen,
  • Zhongyi Wang,
  • Gen Che,
  • Liu Liu,
  • Ao Ying,
  • Hanli Lv,
  • Lijie Han,
  • Min Li,
  • Jianyu Zhao,
  • Junqiang Xu,
  • Zhengan Yang,
  • Zhaoyang Zhou,
  • Xiaolan Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-35936-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Pollen tube growth is guided towards ovules. Here the authors show that a bHLH transcriptional factor CsALC functions in pollen tube emergence towards ovules to regulate female fertility in cucumber and promotes the expression of two rapid alkalinization factors CsRALF4/19 in the ovary.