Part I: Plant Germline Development: From Investigation to Application
1. An Introduction to Male Germline Development
Hannes Vogler, Ueli Grossniklaus, and Afif Hedhly
2. Apomixis: Engineering the Ability to Harness Hybrid Vigor in Crop Plants
Joann A. Conner and Peggy Ozias-Akins
Part II: Clearing, Imaging Techniques, and Immunolocalization to Study Cell Lineage, Cell Type Specificity, Cytoskeleton, Cell Cycle, Signaling, and Hormones
3. 3D Imaging of Whole-Mount Ovules at Cellular Resolution to Study Female Germline Development in Rice
Ethel Mendocilla Sato, Wenjing She, and Célia Baroux
4. Live-Cell Imaging of F-Actin Dynamics During Fertilization in Arabidopsis thaliana
Daichi Susaki, Daisuke Maruyama, Ramesh Yelagandula, Frederic Berger, and Tomokazu Kawashima
5. Development and Observation of Mature Megagametophyte Cell-Specific Fluorescent Markers
Mark A. Chamberlin and Shai J. Lawit
6. Analysis of Fluorescent Reporter Activity in the Male Germline During Pollen Development by Confocal Microscopy
David Twell and Lynette Brownfield
7. In Vivo Ploidy Determination of Arabidopsis thaliana Male and Female Gametophytes
Burcu Nur Keçeli, Nico De Storme, and Danny Geelen
8. Staining and Clearing of Arabidopsis Reproductive Tissue for Imaging of Fluorescent Proteins
Daniel Slane, Patrick Bürgel, and Martin Bayer
9. Live Cell Imaging of Auxin and Cytokinin Signaling in Maize Female Gametophytes
Antony M. Chettoor and Matthew M.S. Evans
10. Imaging Ca2+ Dynamics in Wild-Type and NADPH Oxidase-Deficient Mutant Pollen Tubes with Yellow Cameleon and Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy
Christina Maria Franck, Jens Westermann, and Aurélien Boisson-Dernier
11. Immunolocalization of AGPs and Pectins in Quercus suber Gametophytic Structures
Mário Luís da Costa, Ana Lúcia Lopes, Maria Isabel Amorim, and Sílvia Coimbra
Part III: Chromosome Spreading, Whole Mount In Situ, and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)
12. Optimization of Cell Spreading and Image Quality for the Study of Chromosomes in Plant Tissues Laksana Kantama, Erik Wijnker, and Hans de Jong
13. Whole Mount RNA-FISH on Ovules and Developing Seeds
Andrea Bleckmann and Thomas Dresselhaus
14. Analysis of Peroxisome Biogenesis in Pollen by Confocal Microscopy and Transmission Electron Microscopy
Peng-Fei Jia, Hong-Ju Li, and Wei-Cai Yang
15. Transmission Electron