Abstract
Throughout the 164 years since Giovanni Battisti Amici’s first report of the phenomenon, the busy and seemingly purposeful movement of inclusions within pollen tubes has intrigued generations of observers; yet it is only within the last two decades that some understanding of the underlying mechanisms has begun to emerge, mainly in consequence of new evidence concerning the pollen tube cytoskeleton. My purpose in this short talk is to outline some of this recent progress.
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Heslop-Harrison, J. (1988). The Pollen Tube: Motility and the Cytoskeleton. In: Cresti, M., Gori, P., Pacini, E. (eds) Sexual Reproduction in Higher Plants. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73271-3_31
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