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pollen sperm cell

Term Information

Accession
PO:0025121
Name
pollen sperm cell
Ontology
plant_anatomy
Synonyms
célula espermática polínica (Spanish, exact), 花粉精子細胞 (Japanese, exact)
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
A plant sperm cell (PO:0000084) that is part of the pollen (PO:0025281). Source: POC:curators, PMID:20298228
Comment
Pollen sperm cells are structurally simple, usually non-motile cells that may contain a normal complement of cellular organelles, including heritable cytoplasmic organelles such as mitochondria and, in some plants, plastids, but lack a cell wall. In seed plants, pollen sperm cells are usually two in number. In angiosperms, during double fertilization, one fuses with the plant egg cell (PO:0020094) to produce a plant zygote (PO:0000423) while another fuses with the two polar nuclei of the embryo sac central cell (PO:0020090) to give rise to endosperm (PO:0009089). In angiosperms, the pollen sperm cell arises from the generative cell (PO:0020097). In gymnosperms, the pollen sperm cell arises from the body cell (PO:0025525).
Subset
Gymnosperms
CL
Angiosperm
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Parents of pollen sperm cell (PO:0025121)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
pollen sperm cell [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  pollen (PO:0025281)
pollen sperm cell [RO:0002202 relation] RO:0002202  body cell (PO:0025526)
pollen sperm cell [is_a relation] is_a  plant sperm cell (PO:0000084)
pollen sperm cell [RO:0002202 relation] RO:0002202  generative cell (PO:0020097)

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