Dear Editor, Male reproductive development is an essential biological process for flowering plants and crucial for crop seed produc- tion. Formation of the male reproductive organ, the anther, involves a number of de...
This work was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation of China,the National Basic Research Program of China,by the Leading Academic Discipline Project of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission
Glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase (GPAT) mediates the initial synthetic step for the formation of glycer- olipids, which act as the major components of biological membranes and the principal stored forms of energ...
As a complex wall system in flowering plants, the pollen outer wall mainly contains aliphatic sporopollenin; however, the mechanism for synthesizing these lipidic precursors during pollen development remains less well...