Nagoya, Japan — Dr. Daisuke Maruyama and Professor Tetsuya Higashiyama at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI - ITbM) of Nagoya University and the JST - ERATO Higashiyama Live - Holonics Project along with their international team have shown by live - cell imaging techniques that flowering plants, such as Arabidopsis
thaliana undergo a cell to cell fusion to prevent the attraction of the second pollen tube after fertilization has occurred.