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Angiosperm Pollen and Ovules pp 238–244Cite as

The Extracellular Matrix in Pollen Tube Growth

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The role that the gynoecium plays in pollination has been considered a passive one, much like a nutrient conduit or vessel for the active growth of the pollen tube (Sanders & Lord, 1989). Most research has been on the pollen tube itself in this process of conveying the sperm to the egg, and on the phenomenon of self-incompatibility, or how this process can be blocked. This is in spite of the fact that self-compatibility is the predominant condition in the Angiosperms and no doubt the primitive one from which incompatibility arose (Nasrallah, 1989; Sanders & Lord, 1989). A more thorough knowledge of how compatible pollen tubes grow and interact with the gynoecium can only enhance our understanding of how the complexities of the derived condition of self-incompatibility arose evolutionarily, and suggest a mechanism for its function, especially in gametophytic systems.

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  1. Institute of Biology Genetics Section, University of Milan, via Celoria 26, 20133, Milan, Italy

    E. Ottaviano  & M. Sari Gorla  & 

  2. Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA

    D. L. Mulcahy  & G. Bergamini Mulcahy  & 

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Sanders, L.C., Lord, E.M. (1992). The Extracellular Matrix in Pollen Tube Growth. In: Ottaviano, E., Gorla, M.S., Mulcahy, D.L., Mulcahy, G.B. (eds) Angiosperm Pollen and Ovules. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2958-2_38

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