Plant Reproduction: GABA Gradient, Guidance and Growth

Hong Ma

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2003.10.015

Plant Reproduction: GABA Gradient, Guidance and Growth

Hong Ma

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Abstract

How a pollen tube manages to navigate through the female tissues during plant reproduction has been a mystery. A new analysis of an Arabidopsis mutant has provided the strongest evidence yet that a GABA gradient may be a critical signal for correct targeting of the pollen tube.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	R834-R836
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	13
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2003.10.015
State	Published - Oct 28 2003

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General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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