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Live and let die: a REM complex promotes fertilization through synergid cell death in Arabidopsis
Marta Adelina Mendes, Rosalinda Fiorella Guerra, Beatrice Castelnovo, Yuriria Silva-Velazquez, Piero Morandini, Silvia Manrique, Nadine Baumann, Rita Groß-Hardt, Hugh Dickinson, Lucia Colombo

Development 2016 143: 2780-2790; doi: 10.1242/dev.134916

Summary: In the female gametophyte, the synergid cell is required to attract the pollen tube, and then degenerates. Its death, and pollen tube bursting, is controlled by the VDD and VAL transcription factors.