Gamete interaction and fusion during double fertilization (A04)

显花植物的双受精作用为种子和籽粒中胚和胚乳的发育提供了基础，但其分子过程还不清楚。我们的目的是表征的分子功能和进化的保守性精子特异性膜蛋白参与有效的配子融合。此外，我们希望通过比较磷酸化蛋白质组学来确定精子活化和融合过程的下游组分。

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.