桃儿七种子解剖结构及其萌发生长期形态特征

为探明种皮和胚乳是否是限制桃儿七种子萌发的主要因素,利用组织切片和显微技术,对桃儿七种子及其不同萌发期（1、7、14、21、28 d）解剖结构和播种后一定时期内（7~210 d）的植株生长形态进行观察。桃儿七种子由种皮、胚乳和胚构成。种皮包括外种皮和内种皮,外种皮致密规整,由外至内分别为栅状石细胞和表皮层细胞,内种皮由5~6层海绵细胞组成。胚乳占种子体积的绝大部分,包括珠孔胚乳和外胚乳。胚由胚根、胚轴和子叶组成,被致密种皮、多层珠孔胚乳和外胚乳包围。萌发期1~7 d胚根和胚轴开始伸长,7~14 d两片子叶分离,14~21 d胚根突破珠孔胚乳和种皮,21~28 d胚根、胚轴和子叶继续扩张伸长。种子播种210 d后可平均形成3片功能真叶和5条不定根。致密种皮（物理休眠）和多层胚乳（机械休眠）是限制桃儿七种子萌发的两个主要因素。     

兰花蕉种子的解剖学和组织学研究

兰花蕉种子球形成或近球形,具表皮毛,种脊不明显,种子包括假种皮,种皮,外胚乳,内胚乳和胚五部分,假种皮具３～４条粗毛状裂片,包围种子或不定向伸展,裂片最外方为１层表皮细胞和１～３层厚壁细胞,内方为薄壁细胞;表皮细胞和厚壁细胞的壁增厚并木质化,成熟时裂片下部１／２段中空,种皮由外珠被发育而来,但内珠被在种子发育后期才萎缩,种皮分化为外种皮,中种皮与内种皮;外种皮由１层有皮细胞构成,其细胞壁增厚并木质     

象牙参种子的解剖学和组织化学研究

象牙参种子解剖学和组织化学的研究结果表明, 种子包括假种皮、种皮、外胚乳、内胚乳和胚。假种皮没有完全包被种子, 由约4~5 层薄壁细胞构成。种皮可以分为外种皮、中种皮和内种皮。外种皮由1 层表皮细胞构成, 细胞壁明显增厚;中种皮包括下皮层、半透明细胞层和3~4层细胞的色素层, 下皮层和色素层细胞均充满红棕色色素;内种皮由1 层体积小、壁局部增厚的砖形薄壁细胞构成。种子在珠孔端分化出珠孔领、孔盖和种阜状结构, 珠孔领为同形型, 孔盖不具石细胞硬层。合点区内种皮出现缺口, 缺口间充满合点区色素细胞, 其整体轮廓成新月形。外胚乳可分为厚区与薄区两部分, 外胚乳细胞壁平直, 细胞内充满淀粉。内胚乳细胞主要含蛋白质, 也有少量脂类物质, 细胞界限不清楚。胚棒状, 两端略膨大, 含大量脂类物质, 也含蛋白质和多糖。     

墨兰雌配子体和胚胎发生

墨兰的胚珠倒生型,具薄珠心和二层珠被。胚囊发育为葱型,成熟胚囊为８核,从传粉型受精约１００ｄ,正常双受精。初生胚乳细胞分裂为具２－６个核的胚乳。胚具５－６细胞的胚柄。传粉到种子成熟约８个月,成熟种子只具单层细胞的种皮和一个未分化的球形胚,胚柄及胚乳都消失。     

象牙参种子的解剖学和组织化学研究

象牙参种子解剖学和组织化学和的研究结果表明,种子包括假种皮、种以、外胚乳、内胚乳和胚。假种皮没有完全包被种子,由约４－５层薄壁细胞构成。种皮可以分为外种皮、中种皮和内种皮。外种皮由１层表皮细胞构成细胞壁明显增厚;中种皮包括下皮层、半透明细胞层和３－４层细胞的色素层,下皮层和色素层细胞均充满红棕色色素;内种皮由１层体积小、壁局部增厚的砖形薄壁细胞构成。种子在球孔端分化出珠孔领、孔盖和种阜状,珠孔领为同形型,孔盖不具石细胞硬层。合点区内种皮出现缺口,缺口间充满足合点区色素细胞,其整体轮廓成新新月形。外胚乳可分为厚区与薄区两部分,外胚乳细胞壁平直,细胞内充满淀粉,内胚乳细胞主要含蛋白质,也有少量脂类物质,细胞界限不清楚。胚棒状,两端略膨大,含大量脂类物质,也含蛋白质和多糖。     

九翅豆蔻种子的解剖学和组织化学研究

九翅豆蔻种子包括假种皮、种皮、外胚乳、内胚乳和胚．由外珠被发育而来的种皮可划分为外种皮、中种皮和内种皮．外种皮由一层表皮细胞构成,其壁增厚并略木质化．中种皮包括下皮层、油细胞层和含２—５层细胞的色素层;各为一层薄壁细胞的下皮层与油细胞层非常压扁．内种皮由一层石细胞构成,极厚,占种皮厚度的１／３—２／３,是种皮主要的机械层;内种皮整体外观呈波浪形,在珠孔端和合点端的内种皮除外．种子在珠孔端分化出珠孔领和孔盖,在合点端分化出下皮细胞垫、大型薄壁细胞区、维管束和合点端色素细胞区．外胚乳细胞内充满淀粉,内胚乳细胞含有大量蛋白质和多糖,胚细胞含有蛋白质、多糖和脂类物质．脂类物质不存在于油细胞中,而存在于胚细胞、部分假种皮细胞、外种皮细胞和内胚乳最外层细胞中．建议将油细胞（层）改称为半透明细胞（层）．     

黄精种子萌发过程发育解剖学研究

采用石蜡切片技术对成熟黄精种子形态及萌发过程中的形态学变化及解剖结构特征进行了研究,以阐明黄精种子繁殖的生物学机制。结果显示:(1)成熟的黄精种子由外而内依次为种皮、胚乳和胚等3部分组成。其中种皮由一层木质化的细胞组成;胚乳占据种子的大部分结构,胚乳细胞含有大量淀粉,细胞壁增厚;胚处于棒型胚阶段。(2)黄精种子在萌发过程中棒型胚靠近种脐端分化为吸器、子叶联结和子叶鞘,靠近种孔的部位分化出胚根、胚轴和胚芽。(3)黄精种子萌发首先由子叶联结伸长将胚芽和胚根原基推出种孔,紧接着下胚轴膨大形成初生小根茎,吸器留在种子中分解吸收胚乳中的营养物质。(4)通过子叶联结连通吸器和初生小根茎,将胚乳中的营养物质由吸器-子叶联结这个通路转移到初生小根茎中,为初生根茎上胚芽和胚根的进一步分化提供物质保障。(5)黄精种子自然条件下萌发率较低,而且当年不出土。研究表明,黄精种子的繁殖生物学特性是其生态适应的一种重要机制。     

扇脉杓兰果实生长动态及胚胎发育过程观察

对授粉后不同发育阶段扇脉杓兰(Cypripedium japonicum Thunb.)果实的生长动态进行了观察和分析,并分别采用TrC法和常规石蜡切片法研究了种子生活力及其胚胎发育过程.观察结果湿示:扇脉杓兰果实形态成熟时间约为110 d,其中,授粉后0～20 d为第1次迅速生长期,授粉后20～30 d为第1次缓慢生长期,授粉后30～50 d为第2次迅速生长期,授粉后50～110 d为第2次缓慢生长期;果实纵径和横径的生长动态变化过程相似,但横径的生长动态曲线较纵径平缓,形态成熟时果实的纵径和横径分别为48.87和13.59 mm.成熟种子由内外2层种皮和球形胚构成,不具胚乳,内外种皮间具空气腔;败育种子只具有内种皮和外种皮而无种胚.胚胎发育类型为石竹型,种胚自受精形成合子到发育为成熟球形胚约需95 d.种胚发育时合子第1次不均衡横裂形成基细胞和顶细胞;基细胞发育为胚柄细胞,胚柄细胞高度液泡化,在胚胎发育的过程中不进行分裂并逐渐退化消失;顶细胞不参与胚柄形成,并且经过有丝分裂最终形成球形胚;内珠被在种子成熟时发育成为1层致密的紧贴胚体的内种皮.种胚纵径和横径的生长动态变化相似,成熟球形胚的纵径和横径分别为208.71和106.19 μm.扇脉杓兰种子生活力较高,有生活力的种子占56％.根据研究结果推测:自然状态下扇脉杓兰种子萌发率较低,可能与致密的种皮、种子中较小的胚体以及无胚乳导致的营养成分不足有关.     

兰花蕉种子的解剖学和组织化学研究

兰花蕉种子球形或近球形,具表皮毛,种脊不明显。种子包括假种皮、种皮、外胚乳、内胚乳和胚五部分。假种皮具３～４条粗毛状裂片,包围种子或不定向伸展;裂片最外方为１层表皮细胞和１～３层厚壁细胞,内方为薄壁细胞;表皮细胞和厚壁细胞的壁增厚并木质化;成熟时裂片下部１／２段中空。种皮由外珠被发育而来,但内珠被在种子发育后期才萎缩。种皮分化为外种皮,中种皮与内种皮;外种皮由１层表皮细胞构成,其细胞壁增厚并木质化;中种皮外方为２～３层厚壁细胞,内方由１２～１５层薄壁细胞构成;内种皮由１层径向延长的石细胞构成,其细胞壁网状增厚,胞腔不明显。外胚乳极不显眼,大部分只由１层切向延长的长方形细胞构成,局部为２～１７层细胞;外胚乳细胞主要含许多脂类物质及少量蛋白质颗粒,不含淀粉。内胚乳占据种子很大的体积,由通常径向延长的长方形、长条形或方形薄壁细胞构成;细胞内充满淀粉粒和通常一颗亦有２至多颗菱形或方形蛋白质晶体,脂类物质极少。胚圆柱形,胚根和胚芽不明显。种子珠孔区不分化出珠孔领和孔盖,但具柄,柄的远轴端边缘大部分着生假种皮,着生假种皮一侧柄略膨大。合点区内种皮出现极宽的缺口,缺口间为整体呈弧状长条形的合点区厚壁细胞群。较粗的种脊维管?     

距药姜种子解剖学和组织化学研究

距药姜种子解剖学和组织化学研究表明,种子包括种皮、外胚乳、内胚乳和胚。外皮由1层表皮细胞构成,细胞壁纤维素质且明显增厚,中种皮可分为1层细胞的下皮层、半透明细胞层和2-4层细胞的色素细胞层,下皮层和色素细胞层的细胞内充满棕红色色素;内种皮由1层砖形薄壁细胞构成。珠孔区有珠孔领和孔盖的分化,但珠孔领分化不完善。合点区内种皮出现缺口,缺口间充满合点区色素细胞,其整体轮廓成新月形。外胚乳细胞壁平直,细胞内充满淀粉。内胚乳可分为多细胞区简细胞区两部分,内胚乳细胞界限不清,内含物主要是蛋白质,胚少有分化,含脂类、蛋白质、多糖,另外,还对姜花族的种子解剖学特征进行了初步的系统学分析。     

黄连木果实中油体的发育

黄连木（Pistacia chinensis）是一种重要的木本油料植物,其果实中贮存着大量的油脂,这些油脂分子主要存在于果皮、种皮和胚的油体中。在光学显微镜下观察发现,果皮中油的积累开始于果实发育晚期,果皮开始变红时;种皮中油体的发育开始于果实发育早期;胚中油体的发育开始于球形胚时期。透射电子显微镜观察结果显示,种皮和胚中的油体形成于内质网,而果皮中的油体则分别由内质网、质体和液泡形成。尼罗红荧光标记显示,内质网形成的油体始终以独立单元的形式存在。种皮和胚中也贮藏蛋白体,但发育晚于油体。果皮、种皮和子叶中都贮存少量的淀粉粒。     

Ethylene biosynthesis in tissues of young and mature avocado fruits

Sitrit, Y., Blumenfeld, A. and Riov, J. 1987. Ethylene biosynthesis in tissues of young and mature avocado fruits.
Avocado (Persea americana Mill.) fruit tissues differ greatly in their capability to pro duce wound ethylene. In fruitlets, the endosperm lacks the ability to produce ethylene because no 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) is synthesized and no activity of the ethylene-forming enzyme (EFE) is present. The cotyledons (embryo) do not produce significant amounts of ethylene at any of the developmental stages of the fruits, although in both young and mature fruits they contain a relatively high level of ACC synthase (EC 4.4.1.-) activity. Because of the very low EFE activity present in the cotyledons, most of the ACC formed in this tissue is conjugated. Of the various fruitlet tissues, the seed coat has the highest potential to produce ethylene. This is due to a high ACC synthase activity and particularly a high EFE activity. Also, the seed coat is very sensitive to the autocatalytic effect of ethylene. Fruitletpericarp possesses a lower potential to produce ethylene than the seed coat. Towardruit maturiy, the endosperm disappears and the seed coat shrivels and dies so that the pericarp and the cotyledons remain as the only active tissues in the mature fruit. At this stage, the pericarp is the only tissue producing ethylene. Mature precli macteric pericarp has a lower potential to produce ethylene than fruitlet pericarpThe role of ethylene in regulating various physiological processes at different stages of fruit maturation is discussed.     

杧果果实的扫描电镜观察

果成熟果实呈黄色长卵形是典型的核果。其外果皮呈革质,中果皮呈肉质,内果皮呈骨质表面有纤维。内果皮包被着种子形成一个大而扁的核。种子扁形,种皮很薄,子叶呈多胚或单胚。通过对果果实结构各个层次的扫描电镜观察,为其贮藏保鲜及繁育栽培工作提供一些科学依据。     

五唇兰雌配子体发育和胚胎发生的研究

五唇兰的胚珠倒生型,具薄珠心,两层珠被。胚囊发育为双孢子葱型,成熟胚囊８核。从传粉到受精约５０ｄ,正常双受精。胚具５－６细胞的胚柄,种子成熟时胚柄及胚乳核消失,成熟种子只具单层细胞的种皮和一个未分化的珠珠形胚。     

Suppression of sucrose synthase gene expression represses cotton fiber cell initiation,elongation, and seed development

Cotton is the most important textile crop as a result of its long cellulose-enriched mature fibers. These single-celled hairs initiate at anthesis from the ovule epidermis. To date, genes proven to be critical for fiber development have not been identified. Here, we examined the role of the sucrose synthase gene (Sus) in cotton fiber and seed by transforming cotton with Sus suppression constructs. We focused our analysis on 0 to 3 days after anthesis (DAA) for early fiber development and 25 DAA, when the fiber and seed are maximal in size. Suppression of Sus activity by 70% or more in the ovule epidermis led to a fiberless phenotype. The fiber initials in those ovules were fewer and shrunken or collapsed. The level of Sus suppression correlated strongly with the degree of inhibition of fiber initiation and elongation, probably as a result of the reduction of hexoses. By 25 DAA, a portion of the seeds in the fruit showed Sus suppression only in the seed coat fibers and transfer cells but not in the endosperm and embryo. These transgenic seeds were identical to wild-type seeds except for much reduced fiber growth. However, the remaining seeds in the fruit showed Sus suppression both in the seed coat and in the endosperm and embryo. These seeds were shrunken with loss of the transfer cells and were <5% of wild-type seed weight. These results demonstrate that Sus plays a rate-limiting role in the initiation and elongation of the single-celled fibers. These analyses also show that suppression of Sus only in the maternal seed tissue represses fiber development without affecting embryo development and seed size. Additional suppression in the endosperm and embryo inhibits their own development, which blocks the formation of adjacent seed coat transfer cells and arrests seed development entirely.     

Anatomy of Jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis) seed and the utilization of liquid wax during germination

Much work has been done on the agricultural potential of Jojoba, but little on the anatomy of the mature plant or seed. Our investigations concern the structure of the embryo of mature seeds and their external morphology during early germination. The embryo is straight and investing. A hypocotyl sheath surrounds the radicle like a hollow cone. The apical meristem is a low mound of cells in a shallow depression between the broad short petioles of the cotyledons. During germination these petioles lengthen and force the embryo away from the coytledons and seed coat. The hypocotyl elongates and the primary root rapidly extends and is well developed before the apical meristem becomes active. A mature imbibed seed contains approximately fifty percent liquid wax. After germination there is a linear decrease in the amount of wax to approximately ten percent at thirty days.     

AAP1 regulates import of amino acids into developing Arabidopsis embryos

The embryo of Arabidopsis seeds is symplasmically isolated from the surrounding seed coat and endosperm, and uptake of nutrients from the seed apoplast is required for embryo growth and storage reserve accumulation. With the aim of understanding the importance of nitrogen (N) uptake into developing embryos, we analysed two mutants of AAP1 (At1g58360), an amino acid transporter that was localized to Arabidopsis embryos. In mature and desiccated aap1 seeds the total N and carbon content was reduced while the total free amino acid levels were strongly increased. Separately analysed embryos and seed coats/endosperm of mature seeds showed that the elevated amounts in amino acids were caused by an accumulation in the seed coat/endosperm, demonstrating that a decrease in uptake of amino acids by the aap1 embryo affects the N pool in the seed coat/endosperm. Also, the number of protein bodies was increased in the aap1 endosperm, suggesting that the accumulation of free amino acids triggered protein synthesis. Analysis of seed storage compounds revealed that the total fatty acid content was unchanged in aap1 seeds, but storage protein levels were decreased. Expression analysis of genes of seed N transport, metabolism and storage was in agreement with the biochemical data. In addition, seed weight, as well as total silique and seed number, was reduced in the mutants. Together, these results demonstrate that seed protein synthesis and seed weight is dependent on N availability and that AAP1-mediated uptake of amino acids by the embryo is important for storage protein synthesis and seed yield.     

New insights into cell–cell communications during seed development in flowering plants

The evolution of seeds is a major reason why flowering plants are a dominant life form on Earth. The developing seed is composed of two fertilization products, the embryo and endosperm, which are surrounded by a maternally derived seed coat. Accumulating evidence indicates that efficient communication among all three seed components is required to ensure coordinated seed development. Cell communication within plant seeds has drawn much attention in recent years. In this study, we review current knowledge of cross-talk among the endosperm, embryo, and seed coat during seed development, and highlight recent advances in this field.     

Hormonal and Structural Aspects of Fruit Development in the Orchid, Epidendrum

Endogenous cytokinin and gibberellin-like activity were measuredby bioassay in developing fruit of the orchid Epidendrum ibaguense.Cytokinins decline during the first 30 d after pollination,then begin to accumulate, with very high levels (1–13µ g zeatin eq. g^–1 dry wt. ) in the mature fruitand seed. The major structural change in developing fruit duringthe first 30 d is the ongoing cell division in the fruit wall.By day 30 most ovules have been fertilized and embryo developmentbegins. The increase in cytokinin activity thus coincides withthe onset of embryo development. Gibberellin levels declinein the fruit throughout development, although high activity(0.9 µ g GA₃ eq. g^–1 dry wt. ) is observed in themature seed. The mature embryo shows no obvious structural differentiationinto embryonic axis and cotyledon and no endosperm develops.