Kevin Begcy

Oct 15, 2024 | nature.com | Naoya Sugi |Marina Millan-Blanquez |Jörg Becker |Kevin Begcy |Frédéric Berger |Cécile Bousquet-Antonelli | +33 more

Over the past 50 years, only a few studies have examined the peri-germ cell membrane. Nonetheless, it has been assigned multiple names. For example, the peri-germ cell membrane was identified in 1969 (ref. 1) as the ‘generative cell envelope’. Subsequent ultrastructural work in the 1980s led to new names, including ‘internal plasma membrane of the vegetative cell’, ‘inner plasma membrane of the pollen grain’ and ‘inner vegetative cell plasma membrane’2,3,4,5,6.