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    Defective pollen wall 2 encodes an acyl transferase required for rice pollen development
    with D. Xu, J. Shi, C. Rautengarten, L. Yang, X. Qian, M. Uzair, L. Zhu, Q. Luo, G. An, F. Waßmann, L. Schreiber, J. L. Heazlewood, H. V. Scheller, J. Hu, and D. Zhang
    © 2017 American Society of Plant Biologists. All rights reserved.Aliphatic and aromatic lipids are both essential structural components of the plant cuticle, an important interface between the plant and environment. Although cross links between aromatic and aliphatic or other moieties are known to be associated with the formation of leaf cutin and root and seed suberin, the contribution of aromatic lipids to the biosynthesis of anther cuticles and pollen walls remains elusive. In this study, we …Read more
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    White Cells Facilitate Opposite- and Same-Sex Mating of Opaque Cells in Candida albicans
    with L. Tao, C. Cao, G. Guan, Q. Zhang, C. J. Nobile, and G. Huang
    © 2014 Tao et al.Modes of sexual reproduction in eukaryotic organisms are extremely diverse. The human fungal pathogen Candida albicans undergoes a phenotypic switch from the white to the opaque phase in order to become mating-competent. In this study, we report that functionally- and morphologically-differentiated white and opaque cells show a coordinated behavior during mating. Although white cells are mating-incompetent, they can produce sexual pheromones when treated with pheromones of the o…Read more