Fertilization articles within Nature

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  25 January 2023 | Open Access

  Stigma receptors control intraspecies and interspecies barriers in Brassicaceae

  A signalling mechanism ensuring intraspecies and interspecies reproductive barriers in flowering plants is uncovered.

  • Jiabao Huang
  • , Lin Yang
  •  & Qiaohong Duan

• Article | 06 July 2022

  A receptor–channel trio conducts Ca²⁺ signalling for pollen tube reception

  The molecular mechanism by which FERONIA, LORELEI and NORTIA work together to facilitate calcium-mediated synergid–pollen tube communication in flowering plants is presented.

  • Qifei Gao
  • , Chao Wang
  •  & Sheng Luan

• Article | 31 March 2021

  Fertilized egg cells secrete endopeptidases to avoid polytubey

  Fertilized Arabidopsis egg cells secrete endopeptidases into the extracellular space that cleave the pollen tube attractor LURE1, preventing polytubey.

  • Xiaobo Yu
  • , Xuecheng Zhang
  •  & Meng-xiang Sun

• Letter | 24 July 2017

  GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR-LIKE channels are essential for chemotaxis and reproduction in mosses

  Mutations in genes that encode GLUTAMTATE RECEPTOR-LIKE (GLR) channels in the moss Physcomitrella patens result in failure of motile sperm to target the female reproductive organs and of zygotes to develop properly.

  • Carlos Ortiz-Ramírez
  • , Erwan Michard
  •  & José A. Feijó

• Letter | 23 January 2017

  MATRILINEAL, a sperm-specific phospholipase, triggers maize haploid induction

  A frame-shift mutation in MATRILINEAL, a pollen-specific phospholipase, triggers haploid induction in maize, which may be useful in developing improved haploid induction systems for crop breeding.

  • Timothy Kelliher
  • , Dakota Starr
  •  & Barry Martin

• Research Highlights | 28 November 2012

  Plant fertilization protein found

• Letter | 18 July 2012

  Sex-specific volatile compounds influence microarthropod-mediated fertilization of moss

  Volatile scents of moss Ceratodon purpureus show sex-specific differences and are similar in chemical diversity to those of plant–insect pollination mutualisms; and moss-dwelling microarthropods, whose presence increases C. purpureus fertilization rates, prefer scents of reproductive female C. purpureus to reproductive males, indicating a scent-based ‘plant–pollinator-like’ relationship between mosses and microarthropods.

  • Todd N. Rosenstiel
  • , Erin E. Shortlidge
  •  & Sarah M. Eppley