linkedin post 2019-10-20 05:43:22

WAVES OF MESSAGES. “Ca2+ waves and oscillation are key signalling elements during the fertilization process of animals, and are involved, for example, in egg activation. In the unique double fertilization process in flowering plants, both the egg cell and the neighbouring central cell fuse with a sperm cell each. Here we succeeded in imaging cytosolic Ca2+ in these two cells, and in the two synergid cells that accompany the gametes during semi-in vivo double fertilization.”

http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms5722?WT.ec_id=NCOMMS-20140829

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