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SUBMITTER: Xu H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC42432 | biostudies-other | 1995 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Xu H H Knox R B RB Taylor P E PE Singh M B MB
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19950301 6
Male fertility in flowering plants is dependent on production of viable pollen grains within the anther. Genes expressed exclusively in the anther are likely to include those that control male fertility. On the basis of their tissue specificity, such genes have been isolated, yet in none of them has this function been demonstrated. Here we report that one such gene, Bcp1, is active in both diploid tapetum and haploid microspores and is required for pollen fertility. Perturbation of this gene in ...[more]