Pollen apertures are the manifestation of distinct plasma membrane domains on the pollen surface. A new study discovered two proteins in rice that are localized specifically to the aperture domains in the membrane of developing pollen and are involved in aperture formation.
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Zhou, Y., Dobritsa, A.A. Building portals in pollen. Nat. Plants 6, 334–335 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-020-0641-3
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