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

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

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.

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Main Authors: 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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-35936-z

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-35936-z

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