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Maintaining pollen tube integrity in maize
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellZhou et al. investigated pollen tube integrity maintenance mechanisms in maize. The Plant Cell (2023) https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad324
By Liang-Zi Zhou and Thomas Dresselhaus
Background: As sperm cell transporting vehicles, pollen tubes of flowering plants grow through the transmitting tissues…