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Journal of Experimental Botany 2009 60(5):1479-1492; doi:10.1093/jxb/erp095
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© The Author [2009]. Published by Oxford University Press [on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology]. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

This article appears in the following Journal of Experimental Botany issue: Special Issue: Perspectives on Plant Development [View the issue table of contents]

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From Arabidopsis to rice: pathways in pollen development

Zoe A. Wilson1,* and Da-Bing Zhang2

1School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE12 5RD, UK
2School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China

* To whom correspondence should be addressed: zoe.wilson{at}nottingham.ac.uk

The control of male fertility is of vital importance for crop breeding, hybrid generation, and the control of pollen release. Recent development in the analysis of Arabidopsis male sterile mutants has meant that there is a greater understanding of the gene regulatory networks controlling maternal development of the anther and the resultant sporophytes. With the advent of the genome sequence and tools to allow the analysis of gene function, this knowledge base is now extending into the monocot crop rice. This has shown high levels of similarity between the networks of pollen development in Arabidopsis and rice, which will serve as valuable tools to understand and manipulate this developmental pathway further in plants.

Key words: Anther development, Arabidopsis, male sterility, PCD, pollen, programmed cell death, rice, tapetum

Received 7 January 2009; Revised 27 February 2009 Accepted 4 March 2009


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