Gamete interaction and fusion during double fertilization (A04)

开花植物的双受精为种子和籽粒中胚胎和胚乳的发育提供了基础，但其潜在的分子过程尚不清楚。我们的目标是研究参与有效配子融合的精子特异性膜蛋白的分子功能和进化保守性。此外，我们希望通过比较磷蛋白质组学来确定精子激活和融合过程的下游成分。

Double fertilization in flowering plants provides the basis for embryo and endosperm development in seeds and grains but the underlying molecular processes are not well understood. We aim at characterizing the molecular function and evolutionary conservation of sperm-specific membrane proteins involved in efficient gamete fusion. Furthermore, we want to identify downstream components of the sperm activation and fusion process by comparative phosphoproteomics.