Twisted pollen tubes induce infertility

Crops with a number of units of chromosomes, often known as polyploids, are salt-tolerant or drought-resistant and infrequently obtain increased yields. Nonetheless, newly fashioned polyploid crops are sometimes sterile or have lowered fertility and are unsuitable for breeding resistant strains. The reason being that the pollen tube in these crops grows incorrectly, which retains fertilization from going down. Pollen tube development is especially managed by two genes that may very well be helpful in crop breeding.