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. 1972 Jul;50(1):7–14. doi: 10.1104/pp.50.1.7

The Nutritional Role of Pistil Exudate in Pollen Tube Wall Formation in Lilium longiflorum

I. Utilization of Injected Stigmatic Exudate 1

C Labarca a,2, F Loewus a
PMCID: PMC367306  PMID: 16658136

Abstract

A quantity of labeled stigmatic exudate, collected from detached Lilium longiflorum (cv. Ace) pistils labeled with d-glucose-1-14C, was fractionated on Sephadex G-100 and the polysaccharide component, G-100-I, was injected into the hollow styles of unlabeled detached pistils (cv. Ace) which had been removed on the day after anthesis from the plant. Injected pistils were immediately cross-pollinated with L. longiflorum (cv. No. 44) pollen. Eighty-four hours later, pistils were dissected to recover the pollen tubes, expended exudate, and labeled tissues of the stigma and style. Distribution of label revealed that at least 25% of the carbohydrate substance in excised pollen tubes was derived from G-100-I. The composition of expended exudate adhering to pollen tubes, of pollen tube cytoplasm, and of pollen tube walls suggests that utilization of exudate by growing pollen tubes involves uptake and incorporation into pollen tube cytoplasm of exudate polysaccharide fragments followed by extensive metabolism of at least a portion of the incorporated carbohydrate prior to its utilization for pollen tube wall biosynthesis. Results suggest the presence of at least two polysaccharide components in G-100-I, one which resists major degradation following injection into the style and another which undergoes measurable degradation both before and after entry into the pollen tube.

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