"Pollen Tube" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A growth from a pollen grain down into the flower style which allows two sperm to pass, one to the ovum within the ovule, and the other to the central cell of the ovule to produce endosperm of SEEDS.
| Descriptor ID |
D053205
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A18.024.249.500.249.500.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Pollen Tube- Pollen Tube
- Pollen Tubes
- Tube, Pollen
- Tubes, Pollen
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pollen Tube" by people in Profiles.
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Effect of aperture number on pollen germination, survival and reproductive success in Arabidopsis thaliana. Ann Bot. 2018 03 14; 121(4):733-740.
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Pollen performance traits reveal prezygotic nonrandom mating and interference competition in Arabidopsis thaliana. Am J Bot. 2016 Mar; 103(3):498-513.
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Mechanistic insights from a quantitative analysis of pollen tube guidance. BMC Plant Biol. 2010 Feb 22; 10:32.
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Genome-wide expression profiling of the Arabidopsis female gametophyte identifies families of small, secreted proteins. PLoS Genet. 2007 Oct; 3(10):1848-61.