Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

A subunit of the oligosaccharyltransferase complex is required for interspecific gametophyte recognition in Arabidopsis

  • Lena M. Müller,
  • Heike Lindner,
  • Nuno D. Pires,
  • Valeria Gagliardini,
  • Ueli Grossniklaus

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10826
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Species-specific gamete recognition is needed to maintain species boundaries. Here, Müller et al. show that ARTUMES regulates pollen tube recognition between different Arabidopsisspecies, representing the first gene known to exclusively influence inter- but not intraspecific gamete interaction in plants.