Synergid cell calcium oscillations refine understanding of FERONIA/LORELEI signaling during interspecific hybridization

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KEY MESSAGE: Pollen tubes from closely related species and mutants lacking pollen tube MYB transcription factors are able to initiate FER/LRE-dependent synergid cell calcium oscillations. Reproductive isolation leads to the evolution of new species; however, the molecular mechanisms that maintain reproductive barriers between sympatric species are not well defined. In flowering plants, sperm cells are immotile and are delivered to female gametes by the pollen grain. After landing on the stigmatic surface, the pollen grain germinates a polarized extension, the pollen tube, into floral tissue. After growing via polar extension to the female gametes and shuttling its cargo of sperm cells through its cytoplasm, the pollen tube signals its arrival and identity to synergid cells that flank the egg. If signaling is successful, the pollen tube and receptive synergid cell burst, and sperm cells are released for fusion with female gametes. To better understand cell-cell recognition during reproduction and how reproductive barriers are maintained between closely related species, pollen tube-initiated synergid cell calcium ion dynamics were examined during interspecific crosses. It was observed that interspecific pollen tubes successfully trigger synergid cell calcium oscillations-a hallmark of reproductive success-but signaling fails downstream of key signaling genes and sperm are not released. This work further defines pollen tube-synergid cell signaling as a critical block to interspecific hybridization and suggests that the FERONIA/LORELEI signaling mechanism plays multiple parallel roles during pollen tube reception.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:37

Enthalten in:

Plant reproduction - 37(2024), 1 vom: 01. März, Seite 57-68

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ponvert, Nathaniel [VerfasserIn]
Johnson, Mark A [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Arabidopsis Proteins
Calcium
Hybridization
Journal Article
Pollen
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Signaling
Speciation
Synergid

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Date Completed 21.02.2024

Date Revised 07.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s00497-023-00483-6

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364260823