Changes in morphogen kinetics and pollen grain size are potential mechanisms of aberrant pollen aperture patterning in previously observed and novel mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana.

Pollen provides an excellent system to study pattern formation at the single-cell level. Pollen surface is covered by the pollen wall exine, whose deposition is excluded from certain surface areas, the apertures, which vary between the species in their numbers, positions, and morphology. What determ...

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Main Authors: Shayne M Plourde, Prativa Amom, Michelle Tan, Adriana T Dawes, Anna A Dobritsa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-02-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006800