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Plant Cell, Vol. 10, 2019-2032, December 1998, Copyright © 1998, American Society of Plant Physiologists
Guidance in Vitro of the Pollen Tube to the Naked Embryo Sac of Torenia fournieri
Tetsuya Higashiyamaa,
Haruko Kuroiwab,
Shigeyuki Kawanoa, and
Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwaa
a Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
b Kyoritsu Women's Junior College, Kanda, Tokyo 101-0051, Japan
Correspondence to:
Tetsuya Higashiyama, higashi{at}biol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (E-mail).
The precise guidance of the pollen tube to the embryo sac is critical to the successful sexual reproduction of flowering plants. We demonstrate here the guidance of the pollen tube to the embryo sac in vitro by using the naked embryo sac of Torenia fournieri, which protrudes from the micropyle of the ovule. We developed a medium for culture of both the ovule and the pollen tube of T. fournieri and cocultivated them in a thin layer of solid medium. Although pollen tubes that had germinated in vitro passed naked embryo sacs, some pollen tubes that grew semi–in vitro through a cut style arrived precisely at the site of entry into the embryo sac, namely, the filiform apparatus of the synergids. When pollen tubes were unable to enter the embryo sac, they continuously grew toward the same filiform apparatus, forming narrow coils. Pollen tubes selectively arrived at complete, unfertilized embryo sacs but did not arrive at those of heat-treated ovules or those with disrupted synergids. These results convincingly demonstrate that pollen tubes are specifically attracted to the region of the filiform apparatus of living synergids in vitro.
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