supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2007CB108700);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 30821064 and 30771131)
Double fertilization is one of the predominant features of sexual reproduction in flowering plants but, because of the physical inaccessibility of gametes, the essential molecular mechanisms in these processes are lar...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30521004,30771131);the project of the Chinese Ministry of Education (307018,20070486049)
Although much effort has been made to uncover the mechanism underlying double fertilization, little knowledge has been acquired for understanding the molecular base of gamete recognition, mainly because of technical l...