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The double fertilization process in angiosperms is based on the delivery of a pair of sperm cells by the pollen tube (the male gametophyte), which elo…
Authors: Toshiyuki Mori, Haruko Kuroiwa, Tetsuya Higashiyama, Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa
Source: Nature cell biology. 2006 Jan
View Full TextFor more than 140 years, pollen tube guidance in flowering plants has been thought to be mediated by chemoattractants derived from target ovules. Howe…
Authors: Satohiro Okuda, Hiroki Tsutsui, Keiko Shiina, Stefanie Sprunck, Hidenori Takeuchi, Ryoko Yui, Ryushiro D Kasahara, Yuki Hamamura, Akane Mizukami, Daichi Susaki,…
Source: Nature. 2009 Mar 19
View Full TextPlastids are widespread in plant and algal lineages. They are also exploited by some nonphotosynthetic protists, including malarial parasites, to supp…
Authors: Motomichi Matsuzaki, Haruko Kuroiwa, Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa, Kiyoshi Kita, Hisayoshi Nozaki
Source: Molecular biology and evolution. 2008 Jun
View Full TextSmall, compact genomes of ultrasmall unicellular algae provide information on the basic and essential genes that support the lives of photosynthetic e…
Authors: Motomichi Matsuzaki, Osami Misumi, Tadasu Shin-I, Shinichiro Maruyama, Manabu Takahara, Shin-Ya Miyagishima, Toshiyuki Mori, Keiji Nishida, Fumi Yagisawa, Keishin Nishida,…
Source: Nature. 2004 Apr 8
View Full TextThe sperm cell of a flowering plant cannot migrate unaided and it must be transported by the pollen-tube cell before successful fertilization can occu…
Authors: Tetsuya Higashiyama, Haruko Kuroiwa, Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa
Source: Current opinion in plant biology. 2003 Feb
View Full TextMitochondrial and chloroplast division controls the number and morphology of organelles, but how cells regulate organelle division remains to be clari…
Authors: Keiji Nishida, Fumi Yagisawa, Haruko Kuroiwa, Toshiyuki Nagata, Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa
Source: Molecular biology of the cell. 2005 May
View Free Full TextTo understand the cell cycle, we must understand not only mitotic division but also organelle division cycles. Plant and animal cells contain many org…
Authors: Yuuta Imoto, Takayuki Fujiwara, Yamato Yoshida, Haruko Kuroiwa, Shinichiro Maruyama, Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa
Source: Protoplasma. 2010 May
View Full TextIn most sexual organisms, including isogamous, anisogamous and oogamous organisms, uniparental transmission is a striking and universal characteristic…
Authors: Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa
Source: Journal of plant research. 2010 Mar
View Full TextConsistent with their bacterial origin, chloroplasts and primitive mitochondria retain a FtsZ ring for division. However, chloroplasts and mitochondri…
Authors: Shin-ya Miyagishima, Keiji Nishida, Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa
Source: Trends in plant science. 2003 Sep
View Full TextAlthough the active digestion of mating-type minus (mt-) chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) in young zygotes is considered to be the basis for the uniparental in…
Authors: Yoshiki Nishimura, Osami Misumi, Ko Kato, Noriko Inada, Tetsuya Higashiyama, Yu Momoyama, Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa
Source: Genes & development. 2002 May 1
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