Production of plant pollen is regulated by several signalling pathways

Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 10:30 in Biology & Nature

Plants producing flower pollen must not leave anything to chance. The model plant thale cress (Arabidopsis), for instance, uses three signaling pathways in concert with partially overlapping functions. The yield becomes the greatest when all three processes are active; however, two are sufficient to form an acceptable quantity of flower pollen.

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