IN-VITRO FERTILIZATION WITH ISOLATED HIGHER-PLANT GAMETES

Citation
E. Kranz et T. Dresselhaus, IN-VITRO FERTILIZATION WITH ISOLATED HIGHER-PLANT GAMETES, Trends in plant science, 1(3), 1996, pp. 82-89
Citations number
37
Categorie Soggetti
Plant Sciences
Journal title
ISSN journal
13601385
Volume
1
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
82 - 89
Database
ISI
SICI code
1360-1385(1996)1:3<82:IFWIHG>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
In vitro fertilization techniques with isolated angiosperm gametes hav e been developed recently. Zygotes, embryos and fertile plants can now be obtained from individual fusions of pairs of sperm and egg cells. This allows the examination of especially early developmental processe s, immediately after fertilization, with living material that is indep endent from the maternal tissue. These techniques are likely to have a widespread impact in plant developmental biology. In addition, they a llow the possibility of isolating gamete-specific and fertilization-in duced genes, for studying gamete interaction and gametic hybridization . Thus, they clearly demonstrate potential for fundamental and applied plant research.