Journal
MOLECULAR PLANT
Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages 1053-1064Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mp/sst070
Keywords
polarity; pollen development; reproductive biology; signal transduction
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- Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology and Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- NIH [GM081451]
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Pollen tubes represent an attractive model system to investigate polarized cell growth. We will discuss the current state of play of knowledge of the regulatory roles of signaling networks in the cellular activities of the pollen tube tip.Pollen tubes elongate rapidly at their tips through highly polarized cell growth known as tip growth. Tip growth requires intensive exocytosis at the tip, which is supported by a dynamic cytoskeleton and vesicle trafficking. Several signaling pathways have been demonstrated to coordinate pollen tube growth by regulating cellular activities such as actin dynamics, exocytosis, and endocytosis. These signaling pathways crosstalk to form a signaling network that coordinates the cellular processes required for tip growth. The homeostasis of key signaling molecules is critical for the proper elongation of the pollen tube tip, and is commonly fine-tuned by positive and negative regulations. In addition to the major signaling pathways, emerging evidence implies the roles of other signals in the regulation of pollen tube growth. Here we review and discuss how these signaling networks modulate the rapid growth of pollen tubes.
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