Plant reproduction: teaching a new language of love.
Species-preferential proteins attract pollen tubes to female gametes in flowering plants. In a new study, Arabidopsis was taught to say "come hither" to maize pollen when it was engineered to express a maize attractant.
Brown University, MCB Department, 185 Meeting St, Providence, RI 02912, USA. mark_johnson_1@brown.edu
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