Arabidopsis pollen tube integrity and sperm release are regulated by RALF-mediated signaling

Author:

Ge Zengxiang1ORCID,Bergonci Tabata23ORCID,Zhao Yuling1,Zou Yanjiao2ORCID,Du Shuo1,Liu Ming-Che2ORCID,Luo Xingju1,Ruan Hao4,García-Valencia Liliana E.25ORCID,Zhong Sheng1,Hou Saiying1,Huang Qingpei1,Lai Luhua4ORCID,Moura Daniel S.3ORCID,Gu Hongya16,Dong Juan7ORCID,Wu Hen-Ming2ORCID,Dresselhaus Thomas8ORCID,Xiao Junyu1,Cheung Alice Y.2ORCID,Qu Li-Jia16ORCID

Affiliation:

1. State Key Laboratory for Protein and Plant Gene Research, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences at College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China.

2. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology Program, Plant Biology Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.

3. Dep. Ciências Biológicas, Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz,” Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, SP 13418-900, Brazil.

4. College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China.

5. Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City DF 04510, Mexico.

6. National Plant Gene Research Center (Beijing), Beijing 100101, People’s Republic of China.

7. Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.

8. Cell Biology and Plant Biochemistry, Biochemie-Zentrum Regensburg, University of Regensburg, 93053 Regensburg, Germany.

Abstract

Timing a switch in tissue integrity In plants, sperm cells travel through the pollen tube as it grows toward the ovule. Successful fertilization depends on the pollen tube rupturing to release the sperm cells (see the Perspective by Stegmann and Zipfel). Ge et al. and Mecchia et al. elucidated the intercellular cross-talk that maintains pollen tube integrity during growth but destroys it at just the right moment. The signaling peptides RALF4 and RALF19, derived from the pollen tube, maintain its integrity as it grows. Once in reach of the ovule, a related signaling peptide, RALF34, which derives from female tissues, takes over and causes rupture of the pollen tube. Science , this issue p. 1596 , p. 1600 ; see also p. 1544

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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