Abstract
Flowering plant zygotes possess complete developmental potency, and the mixture of male and female genetic and cytosolic materials in the zygote is a trigger to initiate embryo development. Plasmogamy, the fusion of the gamete cytoplasms, facilitates the cellular dynamics of the zygote. In the last decade, mutant analyses, live cell imaging-based observations, and direct observations of fertilized egg cells by in vitro fusion of isolated gametes have accelerated our understanding of the post-plasmogamic events in flowering plants including cell wall formation, gamete nuclear migration and fusion, and zygotic cell elongation and asymmetric division. Especially, it has become more evident that paternal parent-of-origin effects, via sperm cytoplasm contents, not only control canonical early zygotic development, but also activate a biparental signaling pathway critical for cell fate determination after the first cell division. Here, we summarize the plasmogamic paternal contributions via the entry of sperm contents during/after fertilization in flowering plants.
Document Type
Review
Publication Date
6-19-2020
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.00871
Funding Information
YO was supported by a research fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (No. 18J02251). TK was supported by the National Science Foundation (IOS-1928836) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, United States Department of Agriculture (Hatch Program-1014280).
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Repository Citation
Ohnishi, Yukinosuke and Kawashima, Tomokazu, "Plasmogamic Paternal Contributions to Early Zygotic Development in Flowering Plants" (2020). Plant and Soil Sciences Faculty Publications. 156.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/pss_facpub/156
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Notes/Citation Information
Published in Frontiers in Plant Science, v. 11, article 871.
© 2020 Ohnishi and Kawashima
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