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PLANT CELL
Volume 12, Issue 7, Pages 1239-1251Publisher
AMER SOC PLANT BIOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.12.7.1239
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Self-incompatibility (SI) is a genetically controlled process used to prevent self-pollination. In Papaver rhoeas, the induction of SI is triggered by a Ca(2+)-dependent signaling pathway that results in the rapid and S allele-specific inhibition of pollen tube tip growth. Tip growth of cells is dependent on a functioning actin cytoskeleton. We have investigated the effect of self-incompatibility (S) proteins on the actin cytoskeleton in poppy pollen tubes. Here, we report that the actin cytoskeleton of incompatible pollen tubes is rapidly and dramatically rearranged during the SI response, not only in our in vitro SI system but also in vivo. We demonstrate that nonspecific inhibition of growth does not result in similar actin rearrangements. Because the SI-induced alterations are not observed if growth stops, this clearly demonstrates that these alterations are triggered by the SI signaling cascade rather than merely resulting from the consequent inhibition of growth. We establish a detailed time course of events and discuss the mechanisms that might be involved. Our data strongly implicate a role for the actin cytoskeleton as a target for signaling pathways involved in the SI response of P. rhoeas.
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