Dictionary definition: synergids

Article: Synergid Cell Death in Arabidopsis Is Triggered following ...
Plant Physiology;  August 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... angiosperm reproduction, one of the two synergid cells within the female gametophyte undergoes ... female gametophyte by growing into the synergid cell that undergoes cell death and releases ... two sperm cells within the degenerating synergid cytoplasm to effect double fertilization ...

Article: MYB98 Is Required for Pollen Tube Guidance and Synergid ...
Plant Cell;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...The synergid cells of the female gametophyte play ... However, the mechanisms by which the synergid cells become specified and develop their ... MYB98 is expressed exclusively in the synergid cells, and mutations in this gene affect ...

Article: Species Preferentiality of the Pollen Tube Attractant Derived ...
Plant Physiology;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...The synergid cell of Torenia fournieri attracts pollen ... ablation experiments confirmed that their synergid cells attracted the pollen tube. When ... were significantly more attracted to synergid cells of the corresponding species ...

Article: Mitochondrial GFA2 is required for synergid cell death in ...
Plant Cell;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... one mutant, gfa2, with a defect in synergid cell death. Additionally, the gfa2 ... of an egg cell, a central cell, two synergid cells, and three antipodal cells (Figure ... mutant, gfa2, that has a defect in synergid cell death during the reproductive process ...

Dictionary definition: synergid
A Dictionary of Plant Sciences;      240 words ...synergid (pl. synergidae) One of 2 haploid cells that lie inside the embryo sac , beside the ovum . Synergidae nourish the ovum .

Article: An Egg Apparatus-Specific Enhancer of Arabidopsis, ...
Plant Physiology;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... ET253, we have cloned an egg apparatus-specific enhancer (EASE ... sequence responsible for egg apparatus-specific expression was ... form an egg cell and two synergids, which form the egg apparatus at the micropylar pole ...

Article: Experimental Analysis of the Fertilization Process
Plant Cell;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... micropylar end, two synergids presumed to govern the ... Together, the egg and synergids form the egg apparatus. Genetic programs that ... apparatus of the receptive synergid and subsequently rupturing. Inside the synergid, a mixture of cytoplasm ...