When Genetic Material Is ‘Smuggled’ into the Next Plant Generation
from Bremen showed that more than one sperm cell can merge with an egg cell in rare cases. “This is called polyspermy,” according to Groß-Hardt. If the sperm cells come from two different fathers, the offspring [...] of the mother,” explains the molecular biologist. “These barriers are not only located in the egg cell. What is far more critical is that the genetic material must pass through the surrounding nutritive [...] Viehöver, Thomas Baum, Dawit Girma Tekleyohans, Dieu Vo, Ivo Grosse, Rita Groß-Hardt: "Selective egg cell polyspermy bypasses the triploid block", eLIFE 2019, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.52976 Contact: