In Arabidopsis, several hundreds of single elongated "papilla cells" form the stigma of a flower, which acts as the receptive interface for pollen. After pollen has hydrated and germinated on the stigma, pollen tubes grow down through the style into the ovary, to reach about 50 individual ovules, which will develop into seeds after successful fertilization.
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Root Cap Turnover as Powerful Model System to Study Developmental Programmed Cell Death
A new study by the team of Prof. Moritz Nowack (VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology) has identified key gene networks that regulate the aging process of ovules, the seed precursors inside flowers.
