The peri-germ cell membrane: poorly characterized but key interface for plant reproduction

Naoya Sugi^#¹, Andrea R M Calhau^#², Nathanaël M A Jacquier², Marina Millan-Blanquez², Jörg D Becker³, Kevin Begcy⁴, Frédéric Berger⁵, Cécile Bousquet-Antonelli⁶, Daniel Bouyer², Giampiero Cai⁷, Alice Y Cheung⁸, Sílvia Coimbra⁹, Philipp Denninger¹⁰, Thomas Dresselhaus¹¹, José A Feijó¹², John E Fowler¹³, Danny Geelen¹⁴, Ueli Grossniklaus^{15

16}, Tetsuya Higashiyama¹⁷, David Honys¹⁸, Tomoko Igawa¹⁹, Gwyneth Ingram², Yvon Jaillais², Mark A Johnson²⁰, Mariko Kato²¹, Miki Kawachi²², Tomokazu Kawashima²³, Yu-Jin Kim²⁴, Hong-Ju Li²⁵, Sébastien Mongrand²⁶, Kazuki Motomura²⁷, Shiori Nagahara²⁸, Kohdai P Nakajima²⁹, Brad Nelms³⁰, Li-Jia Qu³¹, Arp Schnittger³², Stefan Scholten²², Stefanie Sprunck¹¹, Meng-Xiang Sun³³, David Twell³⁴, Dolf Weijers³⁵, Wei-Cai Yang³⁶, Daisuke Maruyama³⁷, Thomas Widiez³⁸

Affiliations

¹ Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan.
² Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, Lyon, France.
³ Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (ITQB NOVA), Oeiras, Portugal.
⁴ Environmental Horticulture Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
⁵ Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna BioCenter, Vienna, Austria.
⁶ Institute de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes (IBMP), CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
⁷ Department of Life Sciences, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
⁸ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Molecular Cell Biology and Plant Biology Programs, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
⁹ LAQV Requimte, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
¹⁰ Technical University of Munich, School of Life Sciences, Plant Systems Biology, Freising, Germany.
¹¹ Department of Cell Biology and Plant Biochemistry, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
¹² Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
¹³ Oregon State University, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Corvallis, OR, USA.
¹⁴ Horticell, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium.
¹⁵ Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
¹⁶ Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
¹⁷ Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
¹⁸ Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
¹⁹ Division of Plant Science, Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University, Matsudo, Japan.
²⁰ Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
²¹ Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
²² Division of Crop Plant Genetics, Department of Crop Science, Georg-August-University Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany.
²³ Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA.
²⁴ Department of Life Science and Environmental Biochemistry, Life and Industry Convergence Research Institute, Pusan National University, Miryang, Republic of Korea.
²⁵ Key Laboratory of Seed Innovation, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
²⁶ Laboratoire de Biogenèse Membranaire, LBM CNRS-Univ. Bordeaux, UMR 5200, Villenave d'Ornon, France.
²⁷ Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan.
²⁸ Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
²⁹ Department of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
³⁰ Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.
³¹ State Key Laboratory for Protein and Plant Gene Research, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, New Cornerstone Science Laboratory, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
³² Department of Developmental Biology, Institute for Plant Sciences and Microbiology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
³³ State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
³⁴ Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
³⁵ Laboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
³⁶ State Key Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
³⁷ Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan. dmaru@yokohama-cu.ac.jp.
³⁸ Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, Lyon, France. thomas.widiez@ens-lyon.fr.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 39406861
DOI: 10.1038/s41477-024-01818-5

The peri-germ cell membrane: poorly characterized but key interface for plant reproduction

Naoya Sugi et al. Nat Plants. 2024 Nov.

. 2024 Nov;10(11):1607-1609.

doi: 10.1038/s41477-024-01818-5.

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Affiliations

¹ Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan.
² Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, Lyon, France.
³ Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (ITQB NOVA), Oeiras, Portugal.
⁴ Environmental Horticulture Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
⁵ Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna BioCenter, Vienna, Austria.
⁶ Institute de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes (IBMP), CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
⁷ Department of Life Sciences, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
⁸ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Molecular Cell Biology and Plant Biology Programs, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
⁹ LAQV Requimte, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
¹⁰ Technical University of Munich, School of Life Sciences, Plant Systems Biology, Freising, Germany.
¹¹ Department of Cell Biology and Plant Biochemistry, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
¹² Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
¹³ Oregon State University, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Corvallis, OR, USA.
¹⁴ Horticell, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium.
¹⁵ Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
¹⁶ Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
¹⁷ Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
¹⁸ Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
¹⁹ Division of Plant Science, Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University, Matsudo, Japan.
²⁰ Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
²¹ Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
²² Division of Crop Plant Genetics, Department of Crop Science, Georg-August-University Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany.
²³ Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA.
²⁴ Department of Life Science and Environmental Biochemistry, Life and Industry Convergence Research Institute, Pusan National University, Miryang, Republic of Korea.
²⁵ Key Laboratory of Seed Innovation, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
²⁶ Laboratoire de Biogenèse Membranaire, LBM CNRS-Univ. Bordeaux, UMR 5200, Villenave d'Ornon, France.
²⁷ Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan.
²⁸ Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
²⁹ Department of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
³⁰ Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.
³¹ State Key Laboratory for Protein and Plant Gene Research, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, New Cornerstone Science Laboratory, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
³² Department of Developmental Biology, Institute for Plant Sciences and Microbiology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
³³ State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
³⁴ Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
³⁵ Laboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
³⁶ State Key Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
³⁷ Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan. dmaru@yokohama-cu.ac.jp.
³⁸ Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, Lyon, France. thomas.widiez@ens-lyon.fr.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 39406861
DOI: 10.1038/s41477-024-01818-5

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