Pollen tube that grows out of pollen grain (IMAGE)

Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

Pollen tube that grows out of pollen grain

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A pollen tube that grows out of a polen grain with certain fluorescently labelled building blocks. In green: PIP5K2 , the enzyme responsible for the production of lipid nano domains in the cell membrane. In magenta: actin cytoskeleton (cell "bones"), which is regulated by the lipid nanodomains.

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Marta Fratini

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