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Male gamete development Meiosis Mitosis I Mitosis II Pollen Microsporocyte Tetrad Generative cell Vegetative cell Sperm cells Egg cell Meiosis Germinated pollen Female Central cell egg + sperm cell central cell + sperm embryo endosperm Double fertilization Posters here at BSA • Recent Topics #132 – Sperm gene expression • Recent Topics #133 – Plumbago regeneration and transformation system Heterospermy If sperm cells differ during their origin at generative cell division, the sperm cells may differ: •Nuclear heterospermy: non-disjunct chromosomes at sperm formation (e.g., B-chromosomes in maize) •Cytoplasmic heterospermy: differential organelle apportionment at sperm cell formation Model: Plumbago zeylanica Functional Groups Functional categories of differentially expressed sperm genes Functional Categorization of SSH ESTs Sua • Transcription, translation, post-translational modification, protein catabolism Functional Categorization of SSH ESTs Svn • Biosynthesis, energy production, carohydrate transport, cell transport Differential Svn–Expressed Genes • Polyubiquitin ubiquitin: E1, E2, E3, 26S proteosome • Isopentenyl transferase (cytokinin synthase control enzyme) • Energy-related products Plumbago Svn-IPT promoter in transgenic Arabidopsis Acknowledgements • OU-Norman • Sequencing (ACGT) • Uni Melbourne • Microarray Facility – – – – – – – – – Xiaoping Gou Tong Yuan Xiaoping Wei Zhaojie Zhang* Mohan Singh Prem Bhalla Huiling Xu* Ines Swoboda* Takashi Okada* *past participants – – – – Bruce Roe Doris Kupfer* Yuhong Tang Sunkyoung So – Tyrrell Conway – Mary Beth Langer* • Funding – University of Oklahoma • Web Access http://www.genome.ou.edu/ Sperm EST Overview Sua (female target: egg cell/nucleus) 583 unique EST sequences – 191 contigs and 392 singlets // 427 are different from Sua – 9 ribosomal sequences, 18 plastid sequences and 2 mitochondrial sequences – 20 nuclear-expressed plastid sequences, 2 mitochondrial sequences Svn (female target: central cell/polar nuclei): 471 unique EST sequences – 122 contigs and 349 singlets // 330 are different from Svn – 6 ribosomal sequences, 3 plastid sequences and 9 mitochondrial sequences – 3 nuclear-expressed plastid sequences, 6 mitochondrial sequences About 70 ESTs are identical (< E-160) and 40 are highly related (between E-160 and E-060)