Gamete interaction and fusion during double fertilization (A04)

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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.