Fertilized egg cells secrete endopeptidases to avoid polytubey

…, A Bazhenova, C Shi, T Dresselhaus, M Sun - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Upon gamete fusion, animal egg cells secrete proteases from cortical granules to establish
a fertilization envelope as a block to polyspermy 1 , 2 , 3 – 4 . Fertilization in flowering plants …

[HTML][HTML] Cell lineage-specific transcriptome analysis for interpreting cell fate specification of proembryos

X Zhou, Z Liu, K Shen, P Zhao, MX Sun - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
In Arabidopsis, a zygote undergoes asymmetrical cell division that establishes the first two
distinct cell types of early proembryos, apical and basal cells. However, the genome-wide …

Dynamic changes of transcript profiles after fertilization are associated with de novo transcription and maternal elimination in tobacco zygote, and mark the onset of …

…, J Ning, X Peng, T Yan, L Ma, S Li, MX Sun - The Plant …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The maternal‐to‐zygotic transition (MZT) is characterized by the turnover of zygote
development from maternal to zygotic control, and has been extensively studied in animals. A …

Exogenous γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) affects pollen tube growth via modulating putative Ca2+-permeable membrane channels and is coupled to negative …

…, JY Wu, YL Wu, R Palanivelu, MX Sun - Journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) is implicated in pollen tube growth, but the molecular and cellular
mechanisms that it mediates are largely unknown. Here, it is shown that exogenous GABA …

Determination of histamine and histidine by capillary zone electrophoresis with pre-column naphthalene-2, 3-dicarboxaldehyde derivatization and fluorescence …

LY Zhang, MX Sun - Journal of Chromatography A, 2004 - Elsevier
A rapid and sensitive method was developed for the simultaneous determination of histamine
and histidine by capillary zone electrophoresis with lamp-induced fluorescence detection. …

[PDF][PDF] Two-step maternal-to-zygotic transition with two-phase parental genome contributions

…, Z Liu, T Cheng, D Liu, Y Cheng, X Peng, M Sun - Developmental Cell, 2019 - cell.com
The maternal-to-zygotic transition (MZT) is an essential developmental turning point in both
plants and animals. In plants, the timing of MZT and parental contributions to the zygotic …

A comprehensive, genome-wide analysis of autophagy-related genes identified in tobacco suggests a central role of autophagy in plant response to various …

…, W Wang, J Zou, T Cheng, X Peng, M Sun - DNA …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism in both animals and plants, which has
been shown to be involved in various essential developmental processes in plants. …

DMP8 and 9 regulate HAP2/GCS1 trafficking for the timely acquisition of sperm fusion competence

…, P Zhao, X Peng, S Sprunck, MX Sun - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Sexual reproduction involves the fusion of two gametes of opposite sex. Although the sperm-expressed
fusogen HAPLESS 2 (HAP2) or GENERATIVE CELL SPECIFIC 1 (GCS1) plays …

[HTML][HTML] A bipartite molecular module controls cell death activation in the basal cell lineage of plant embryos

…, L Ma, L Yang, X Peng, PV Bozhkov, M Sun - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Plant zygote divides asymmetrically into an apical cell that develops into the embryo proper
and a basal cell that generates the suspensor, a vital organ functioning as a conduit of …

Does early embryogenesis in eudicots and monocots involve the same mechanism and molecular players?

P Zhao, K Begcy, T Dresselhaus, MX Sun - Plant Physiology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Meng-Xiang Sun Meng-Xiang Sun … Peng Zhao, Kevin Begcy, Thomas Dresselhaus,
Meng-Xiang Sun, Does Early Embryogenesis in Eudicots and Monocots Involve the Same …