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Garlic (Allium sativum L.) fertility: transcriptome and proteome analyses provide insight into flower and pollen development

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Plant Science, April 2015
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Title
Garlic (Allium sativum L.) fertility: transcriptome and proteome analyses provide insight into flower and pollen development
Published in
Frontiers in Plant Science, April 2015
DOI 10.3389/fpls.2015.00271
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Authors

Einat Shemesh-Mayer, Tomer Ben-Michael, Neta Rotem, Haim D. Rabinowitch, Adi Doron-Faigenboim, Arkadiusz Kosmala, Dawid Perlikowski, Amir Sherman, Rina Kamenetsky

Abstract

Commercial cultivars of garlic, a popular condiment, are sterile, making genetic studies and breeding of this plant challenging. However, recent fertility restoration has enabled advanced physiological and genetic research and hybridization in this important crop. Morphophysiological studies, combined with transcriptome and proteome analyses and quantitative PCR validation, enabled the identification of genes and specific processes involved in gametogenesis in fertile and male-sterile garlic genotypes. Both genotypes exhibit normal meiosis at early stages of anther development, but in the male-sterile plants, tapetal hypertrophy after microspore release leads to pollen degeneration. Transcriptome analysis and global gene-expression profiling showed that >16,000 genes are differentially expressed in the fertile vs. male-sterile developing flowers. Proteome analysis and quantitative comparison of 2D-gel protein maps revealed 36 significantly different protein spots, 9 of which were present only in the male-sterile genotype. Bioinformatic and quantitative PCR validation of 10 candidate genes exhibited significant expression differences between male-sterile and fertile flowers. A comparison of morphophysiological and molecular traits of fertile and male-sterile garlic flowers suggests that respiratory restrictions and/or non-regulated programmed cell death of the tapetum can lead to energy deficiency and consequent pollen abortion. Potential molecular markers for male fertility and sterility in garlic are proposed.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Japan 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 108 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 35 32%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 12%
Student > Master 10 9%
Student > Bachelor 9 8%
Other 9 8%
Other 11 10%
Unknown 23 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 43 39%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 29 26%
Chemistry 4 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 3%
Engineering 2 2%
Other 4 4%
Unknown 25 23%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 March 2022.
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#6,461,883
of 23,342,232 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Plant Science
#3,607
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#75,464
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Plant Science
#35
of 282 outputs
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