Key message Overview of pollen transcriptome studies. Pollen development is driven by
gene expression, and knowledge of the molecular events underlying this process has …

Genetic engineering and traditional plant breeding, which harnesses the natural genetic
variation that arises during meiosis, will have key roles to improve crop varieties and thus …

Plant reproductive transcriptomes have been analyzed in different species due to the
agronomical and biotechnological importance of plant reproduction. Here we presented an …

Polyploidization is a fundamental process in plant evolution. One of the biggest challenges
faced by a new polyploid is meiosis, particularly discriminating between multiple related …

Yield and productivity of many crop species depend on successful reproductive
development to produce seeds or fruits for human nutrition. Plants determine the right time to …

With the recent advances in genomics and sequencing technologies, databases of
transcriptomes representing many cellular processes have been assembled. Meiotic …

Normal microsporogenesis is determined by both nuclear and mitochondrial genes. In
maize C-type cytoplasmic male sterility, it is unclear how the development of meiocytes and …

As one of the most important food and feed crops worldwide, maize suffers much more
tremendous damages under heat stress compared to other plants, which seriously inhibits …

Studies of the anther transcriptome on non-model plants without a known genome are
surprisingly scarce. RNA-Seq and digital gene expression (DGE) profiling provides a …

In flowering plants, successful germinal cell development and meiotic recombination
depend upon a combination of environmental and genetic factors. To gain insights into this …