supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31971871);Open Competition Mechanism to Select the Best Candidates Fund of Jiangsu Province (JBGS[2021]012);Zhongshan Biological Breeding Laboratory (BM2022008-01,BM2022008-03).
In flowering plants, callose(β-1,3-glucan) plays a vital role in pollen development, especially in the separation and development of microspores. However, the molecular mechanism of callose deposition during rice pol...
P.E.J.acknowledges funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(DFG,German Research Foundation)project number 443701866;SEM imaging was financially supported by the grants XDB26000000 and 41877437(Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Nanjing,China).
The grasses are one of the most diverse plant families on Earth.However,their classification and evolutionary history are obscured by their pollen stenopalynous(similar)morphology.A combination of high-resolution imag...
the US National Science Foundation grant MCB-2240972.
Pollen grains are covered by a complex multi-layered structure,the pollen wall.Exine,the outermost layer of this wall,is made from the biopolymer sporopollenin that exhibits remarkable physical and chemical stability....
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFF1003500 to X.Wan,2022YFF1002400 and 2021YFF1000302 to S.W.,and 2022YFF1100501 to X.Wei);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31771875 to X.Wan,31900610 to Q.H.31971958 to X.A.,and 31871702 to S.W.);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China(06500136 to X.Wan);the Beijing Nova Program(Z201100006820114 to Q.H.).
Because of its significance for plant male fertility and,hence,direct impact on crop yield,pollen exine development has inspired decades of scientific inquiry.However,the molecularmechanismunderlying exine formation a...
supported by funds from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31901482,31971863,31971867 and 32171966);the Open Research Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice(Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Centre,2016KF10);the Sichuan Province Science and Technology Support Program(2021YFYZ0016,2021YFYZ0027,2020YJ0139)。
Arabinogalactan proteins(AGPs)are widely distributed in plant cells.Fasciclin-like AGPs(FLAs)belong to a subclass of AGPs that play important roles in plant growth and development.However,little is known about the bio...
supported the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U19A2031);the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFD0100903)。
In plants, non-green plastids in heterotrophic tissues are sites for starch and fatty acids biosynthesis,which are essential for plant development and reproduction. Distinct from chloroplasts, the metabolites for thes...
supported by funds from the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2016YFD0101107);the National Key Basic Research Developments Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(No.2013CB126902);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31322040,31670309);the Innovative Research Team of the Ministry of Education and the 111 Project(No.B14016)
Lipid and phenolic metabolism are important for pollen exine formation. In Arabidopsis, polyketide synthases (PKSs) are essential for both sporopollenin biosynthesis and exine formation. Here, we characterized the r...
supported by the Major Research Plan from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2013CB945100);Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission(12YZ090)
In angiosperm, pollen wall formation is a critical step for male gametophyte development. Pollen wall constitutes of the outer layer exine and the inner layer intine. Exine is further divided into sexine and nexine. I...
supported by the National Program on Key Basic Research Projects (No.2012CB113900);Natural Science Foundation of China (No.31071805,31301790);Key Sci-Technology Project of Zhejiang Province (No.2010C12004);Guangdong Natural Science Foundation (S2013040016220);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2013M530375)
PECTATE LYASE‐LIKE10(PLL10) was previously identified as one of the differentially expressed genes both in microspores during the late pollen developmental stages and in pistils during the fertilization process in ...
supported by funds from National Natural Science Foundation of China (31230051, 30971739, 31270222, and 31110103915);National Key Basic Research Developments Program, Ministry of Science and Technology, China (2013CB126902 and 2011CB100101);China Innovative Research Team, Ministry of Education;111 Project (B14016);the 863 High‐Tech Project, Ministry of Science and Technology, China (2011AA10A101 and 2012AA10A302)
Anther cuticle and pollen exine act as protective envelopes for the male gametophyte or pollen grain, but the mechanism underlying the synthesis of these lipidic polymers remains unclear. Previously, a tapetum‐expres...