Interaction with a lre-5/lre-5 ovule that induces normal pollen tube reception

Video 12. Pollen tube interaction with a  lre-5/lre-5  ovule that induces normal pollen tube reception in an in vitro  guidance assay

Time-lapse imaging of  LAT52:DsRed -tagged pollen tube entering a  lre-5/lre-5  ovule, reaching  DD3:GFP -marked synergid cell, and undergoing normal pollen tube reception.

The video shows merged time-lapse images captured in red and green channels.

Time elapsed between two frames is 10 minutes.

Ref:  Tsukamoto, T., Qin Y., Huang, Y., Dunatunga, D. and Palanivelu, R. (2010). Plant J (in press) .

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