Pollen Tip Growth

Part I. Introduction

1. Pollen Tubes and Tip Growth: of Biophysics and Tipomics
Gerhard Obermeyer, José Feijó

Part II. Biophysics of Tip Growth

2. Water Transport in Pollen
Gerhard Obermeyer

3. The Cytoskeleton of Pollen Tubes and How It Determines the Physico-mechanical Properties of Cell Wall
Giampiero Cai, Luigi Parrotta, Mauro Cresti

Part III. Technical Improvements to Study Tip Growth

4. Measuring Cytomechanical Forces on Growing Pollen Tubes
Hannes Vogler, Naveen Shamsudhin, Bradley J. Nelson, Ueli Grossniklaus

5. Microfluidic- and Microelectromechanical System (MEMS)-Based Platforms for Experimental Analysis of Pollen Tube Growth Behavior and Quantification of Cell Mechanical Properties
Anja Geitmann

Part IV. Subcellular Processes

6. Polar Protein Exocytosis: Lessons from Plant Pollen Tube
Hao Wang, Liwen Jiang

7. Pollen Tip Growth: Control of Cellular Morphogenesis Through Intracellular Trafficking
Hana Rakusová, Anja Geitmann

8. Directional Growth for Sperm Delivery
Subramanian Sankaranarayanan, Tetsuya Higashiyama

9. Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Root Hair Tip Growth: A Comparison with Pollen Tubes
Sébastjen Schoenaers, Daria Balcerowicz, Kris Vissenberg

Part V. Tipomics: Omic Approaches in Tip Growth

10. When Simple Meets Complex: Pollen and the -Omics
Jan Fíla, Lenka Záveská Drábková, Antónia Gibalová, David Honys

11. The Pollen Membrane Proteome
Heidi Pertl-Obermeyer

12. Pollen Metabolome Dynamics: Biochemistry, Regulation and Analysis
Thomas Nägele, Lena Fragner, Palak Chaturvedi, Arindam Ghatak, Wolfram Weckwerth

Part VI. Modeling Tip Growth

13. Derivation and Use of Mathematical Models in Systems Biology
Robert W. Smith, Christian Fleck

14. A Fresh Look at Growth Oscillations in Pollen Tubes: Kinematic and Mechanistic Descriptions
Milenka Hemelryck, Roberto Bernal, Enrique Rojas, Jacques Dumais, Jens H. Kroeger

15. One Thousand and One Oscillators at the Pollen Tube Tip: The Quest for a Central Pacemaker Revisited
Daniel S. C. Damineli, Maria Teresa Portes, José A. Feijó

Keywords: Life Sciences, Plant Biochemistry, Systems Biology, Systems Biology, Membrane Biology