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On the cover, a pollen tube has been lured into growth in an ‘N-like’ pattern, following a trail of the newly discovered chemical attractant LURE1. The elusive secreted guidance factors, critical for the successful fertilization of flowering plants, have now been identified by Okuda et al. as cysteine-rich polypeptides belonging to the sub group of defensin-like proteins. [Cover image: Satohiro Okuda]
