van der Linde, Karina and Walbot, Virginia (2019) Pre-meiotic anther development. In: UNSPECIFIED Current Topics in Developmental Biology,, 131 . ELSEVIER ACADEMIC PRESS INC, SAN DIEGO, 239-+. ISBN 978-0-12-809804-2
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Most genetic and molecular analyses of anther development utilize Arabidopsis thaliana, Oryza sativa (rice), and Zea mays (maize). Especially in maize, early stages of anther development are easy to study because: (1) Maize has unisex flowers. (2) Compared to rice or A. thaliana, maize anthers are relatively large, making dissection for molecular and biochemical analyses easy. (3) Anther developmental stage is strongly correlated withmaize anther length. Besides these technical advantages, understanding anther and pollen development in maize is of significant agricultural importance. Today maize is a worldwide cereal crop: approximately 25% of all consumed food contains maize. Yield stability or even increases depend on maintenance of hybrid vigor, and production of hybrid seed requires manual detasseling or genetic control of pollen development. Knowledge of pollen development can also be used to manage transgene containment. In the first section of this chapter, we will describe the current model for sequential cell fate specification in maize anther lobes, with reference to rice and A. thaliana to point out similarities and differences. In the second section of this chapter, we will review what is known about the individual cell types in anther lobes. The diversity of anther organization is addressed to a limited extent by cytological studies of anthers, often directed to clarify taxonomic relationships. In the third section, we will comment on how new lines of investigation could clarify questions remaining in our current appreciation of anther development.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | SENSITIVE MALE-STERILITY; CYTOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION; MUTANTS; SPECIFICATION; DEFECTS; HYPOXIA; PROTEIN; CUTICLE; KINASE; ROXY1; |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 580 Botanical sciences |
| Divisions: | Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften > Lehrstuhl für Zellbiologie und Pflanzenphysiologie (Prof. Dr. Klaus Grasser) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Apr 2020 09:57 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Apr 2020 09:57 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/27805 |
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