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SUBMITTER: Lou Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4024750 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lou Yue Y Xu Xiao-Feng XF Zhu Jun J Gu Jing-Nan JN Blackmore Stephen S Yang Zhong-Nan ZN
Nature communications 20140508
The pollen wall, an essential structure for pollen function, consists of two layers, an inner intine and an outer exine. The latter is further divided into sexine and nexine. Many genes involved in sexine development have been reported, in which the MYB transcription factor Male Sterile 188 (MS188) specifies sexine in Arabidopsis. However, nexine formation remains poorly understood. Here we report the knockout of TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENT SILENCING VIA AT-HOOK (TEK) leads to nexine absence in Arabido ...[more]