暹罗苏铁茎的解剖学研究

利用冰冻切片法在光学显微镜下观察暹罗苏铁茎的解剖特征。结果表明,暹罗苏铁茎由周皮、皮层、皮层维管束、中柱和髓组成,皮层和髓发达。皮层维管束可分为周韧型和外韧型两种,以周韧型为主。中柱的次生结构为同心环的次生维管组织构成,随着茎的不断成熟,环数逐渐增加;每个同心环均含有次生木质部、维管形成层、次生韧皮部的结构;环与环之间有次生的薄壁组织相间隔。皮层、中柱维管束均由木质部、形成层和韧皮部组成,木质部面积均大于韧皮部。苏铁植物茎在次生结构方面的主要特点是有皮层维管束和同心环结构的中柱维管束。     

Ontogeny of the vascular system ofBotrychium multifidum (S. G. Gmelin) Rupr.(Ophioglossaceae) and its bearing on stellar theories

Basipetal to the shoot apex, a procambial ring with parenchymatous gaps is present. The protoxylem poles are endarrh in both the ectophloic siphonostele and the collateral vascular bundle which comprises the leaf trace. Each leaf trace has an anastomosing system of protoxylem poles that decreases in number basipetally from five to three to two. Differentiation of the leaf trace procambium and protoxylem is bidirectional, that is the differentiation first occurs near the base of the leaf and acropetally in the leaf and basipetally in the stem. Then a fascicular cambium differentiates betweem the primary xylem and phloem in the leaf. This vascular cambium which is also present in the stem is unidirectional and only produces secondary xylem centripetally. Limited secondary growth also occurs in roots. Medullary tracheids when present are longitudinally continuous with the vascular system. The stele of the stem is interpretated as a sympodium of leaf traces and the pith is considered to be fundamental tissue enclosed by the anastomosing of leaf traces.     

Transformation of the collateral vascular bundles into amphivasal vascular bundles in an Arabidopsis mutant.

Arabidopsis inflorescence stems develop a vascular pattern similar to that found in most dicots. The arrangement of vascular tissues within the bundle is collateral, and vascular bundles in the stele are arranged in a ring. Although auxin has been shown to be an inducer of vascular differentiation, little is known about the molecular mechanisms controlling vascular pattern formation. By screening ethyl methanesufonate-mutagenized populations of Arabidopsis, we have isolated an avb1 (amphivasal vascular bundle) mutant with a novel vascular pattern. Unlike the collateral vascular bundles seen in the wild-type stems, the vascular bundles in the avb1 stems were similar to amphivasal bundles, i.e. the xylem completely surrounded the phloem. Furthermore, branching vascular bundles in the avb1 stems abnormally penetrated into the pith, which resulted in a disruption in the ring-like arrangement of vascular bundles in the stele. The avb1 mutation did not affect leaf venation pattern and root vascular organization. Auxin polar transport assay indicated that the avb1 mutation did not disrupt the auxin polar transport activity in inflorescence stems. The avb1 mutation also exhibited pleiotropic phenotypes, including curled stems and extra cauline branches. Genetic analysis indicated that the avb1 mutation was monogenic and partially dominant. The avb1 locus was mapped to a region between markers mi69 and ASB2, which is covered by a yeast artificial chromosome clone, CIC9E2, on chromosome 5. Isolation of the avb1 mutant provides a novel means to study the evolutionary mechanisms controlling the arrangement of vascular tissues within the bundle, as well as the mechanisms controlling the arrangement of vascular bundles in the stele.     

Relictual vegetative anatomical characters in Cactaceae: the genusPereskia

The genusPereskia, which contains numerous morphological features considered relictual in the Cactaceae, has numerous anatomical features that we consider to be relictual also. These were studied to establish a basis for determining the ways that morphogenic mechanisms and anatomical characters diversified as the family evolved. ThesePereskia features may be relictual in the family: epidermis predominantly unistratose and lacking crystals; hypodermis absent or of about three layers of weakly collenchymatous cells with druses; cortex thin and predominantly parenchyma with druses and mucilage cells but lacking cortical bundles; secondary phloem without early differentiation of sclerenchyma but with secondary sclereids developing later, either idioblastically or in clusters; ergastic substances lacking from old secondary phloem; wood with a matrix of libriform fibers (mostly septate and nucleate), scanty paratracheal parenchyma, vessels solitary or in small clusters, perforations simple, pitting circular, oval or very broad; wide-band tracheids absent; ray cells slightly thick-walled, lignified, upright, isodiametric or procumbent; all primary rays narrow; pith without medullary bundles; leaves lacking hypodermis, with only weak development of palisade mesophyll; veins of four orders, strongly distinct in size, none with fibers; vessels in leaves narrower than those in stems.     

VASCULAR ORGANIZATION IN SHOOTS OF CACTACEAE. I. DEVELOPMENT AND MORPHOLOGY OF PRIMARY VASCULATURE IN PERESKIOIDEAE AND OPUNTIOIDEAE

Primary shoot vasculature has been studied for 31 species of Pereskioideae and Opuntioideae from serial transections and stained, decorticated shoot tips. The eustele of all species is interpreted as consisting of sympodia, one for each orthostichy. A sympodium is composed of a vertically continuous axial bundle from which arise leaf- and areole-trace bundles and, in many species, accessory bundles and bridges between axial bundles. Provascular strands for leaf traces and axial bundles are initiated acropetally and continuously within the residual meristem, but differentiation of procambium for areole traces and bridges is delayed until primordia form on axillary buds. The differentiation patterns of primary phloem and xylem are those typically found in other dicotyledons. In all species vascular supply for a leaf is principally derived from only one procambial bundle that arises from axial bundles, whereas traces from two axial bundles supply the axillary bud. Two structural patterns of primary vasculature are found in the species examined. In four species of Pereskia that possess the least specialized wood in the stem, primary vascular systems are open, and leaf traces are mostly multipartite, arising from one axial bundle. In other Pereskioideae and Opuntioideae the vascular systems are closed through a bridge at each node that arises near the base of each leaf, and leaf traces are generally bipartite or single. Vascular systems in Pereskiopsis are relatively simple as compared to the complex vasculature of Opuntia, in which a vascular network is formed at each node by fusion of two sympodia and a leaf trace with areole traces and numerous accessory bundles. Variations in nodal structure correlate well with differences in external shoot morphology. Previous reports that cacti have typical 2-trace, unilacunar nodal structure are probably incorrect. Pereskioideae and Opuntioideae have no additional medullary or cortical systems.     

Effects of Developing Leaves on Stelar Pattern Development in the Shoot Apex of Matteuccia struthiopteris

A developmental study of the normal shoot apex of Matteucciastruthiopteris suggested that patterned stelar differentiationis initiated immediately beneath the single layer of promeristemand occurs prior to the initiation of the youngest leaf primordium.A developmental study in which all leaf primordia were suppressed,with or without lateral isolation of the terminal meristem byvertical incisions, has confirmed this interpretation of stelardifferentiation. Experimentally-induced changes in the tissueimmediately below the promeristem were reflected in the resultingmature structure of the stele. Failure of leaf gap initialsto differentiate, if all leaf primordia were suppressed at theincipient stage, resulted in a mature stele without leaf gaps.Similarly the disappearance of pith mother cells after severalweeks of leaf removal was associated with the formation of astele without pith. Leaf influence was further assessed by allowingone primordium to develop while all others were suppressed.The developing leaf had a small promoting effect on caulinevascular tissue differentiation but its major impact on theexpansion of the parenchymatous tissues of the stele. Characteristicprotoxylem and protophloem failed to differentiate when allleaves were suppressed and, when leaf was allowed to develop,formed only in relation to the leaf.Copyright 1995, 1999 AcademicPress Leaf influence, vascular pattern formation, experimental surgery, shoot apex development, protoxylem, protophloem, Matteuccia struthiopteris     

SYLLEPTIC BRANCHING IN MYRSINE FLORIDANA (MYRSINACEAE)

Myrsine floridana produces all of its vegetative branches, other than those resulting from pruning or damage, by syllepsis, i.e. by the continuous development of an axillary meristem into a branch without an intervening stage of rest. These sylleptic branches, produced in series, have long and conspicuous hypopodia, broad pith connections with the parent axis, and expanded prophylls. Bud dormancy may be imposed when an axillary meristem is in the axil of the sixth or seventh youngest leaf of the parent shoot. Such axillary meristems may remain at the bud stage with only two pairs of scalelike leaves but these may later give rise to inflorescences or proleptic branches. Proleptic branches lack hypopodia, have narrow piths at their bases, and a series of leaves transitional from the original prophylls to normal foliage leaves within about ten leaves. Myrsine floridana has cortical bundles in the stem, related to the formation of minor lateral leaf traces. The hypopodia of sylleptic branches, since they are leafless, do not have cortical bundles.     

THE DEVELOPMENTAL ANATOMY OF OPUNTIA BASILARIS. I. EMBRYO,ROOT, AND TRANSITION ZONE

The large seeds of Opuntia basilaris Engelm. & Bigel. show an unusually high percentage of germination, followed by a rapid development of the seedling during the first 30 days of growth. The primary root has six xylem arms alternating with six phloem poles around a large central pith. Development of metaxylem opposite each of the primary phloem poles results in the formation of eight collateral bundles. Secondary and tertiary roots have four xylem and phloem poles with xylem developing to the center of the stele. The transition zone is characterized by a gradual disappearance of all but two of the primary xylem arms of the root. Metaxylem development in the central portion of the transition zone interconnects the protoxylem poles forming a primary xylem cylinder around the central pith. The collateral bundles pass through the transition zone essentially without change.     

Expression of the 53 kD forked protein rescues F-actin bundle formation and mutant bristle phenotypes in Drosophila.

forked mutations affect bristle development in Drosophila pupae, resulting in short, thick, gnarled bristles in the adult. The forked proteins are components of 200-300-microm-long actin fiber bundles that are present transiently during pupal development [Petersen et al., 1994: Genetics 136:173-182]. These bundles are composed of segments of 3-10 microm long, and forked protein is localized along the actin fiber bundle segments and accumulates at the junctions connecting them longitudinally. In the forked mutants, f(36a) and f(hd), F-actin bundles are greatly reduced in number and size, and bundle segmentation is absent. The p-element, P[w(+), falter] contains a 5.3-kb fragment of the forked gene that encodes the 53-kD forked protein [Lankenau et al., 1996: Mol Cell Biol 16:3535-3544]. Expression of only the 53-kD forked protein is sufficient to rescue the actin bundle and bristle phenotypes of f(36a) and f(hd) mutant flies. The 5.3-kb forked sequence, although smaller than the 13-kb region previously shown to rescue forked mutants [Petersen et al., 1994: Genetics 136:173-182], does contain the core forked sequence that encodes actin binding and bundling domains in cultured mammalian cells [Grieshaber and Petersen, 1999: J Cell Sci 112:2203-2211]. These data show that the 53-kD forked protein is sufficient for normal bristle development and that the domains shown previously to be important for actin bundling in cell culture may be all that are required for normal actin bundle formation in developing Drosophila bristles.     

Nodal and leaf anatomy of Xanthophyllum (Polygalaceae)

The nodal anatomy of Xanthophyllum is unilacunar with a single broad trace departing the cauline stele. The "stipular glands" or extra floral nectaries of some species are vascularized by bundles originating from the base of the leaf trace. Considerable variation exists among species in petiole vasculature with siphonosteles, steles with medullary bundles and simple, flat traces present. The lamina also shows variation in the presence or absence of a hypodermis, nature of vein sheathing, presence or absence of abaxial epidermal papillae, amount of intercellular spaces, and mature stomatal patterns which range from anisocytic and paracytic to those in which no subsidiary cells are discernible. Of nearly uniform occurrence throughout the genus are extraordinary tracheoid foliar idioblasts, which are confined to the veins in terminal or subterminal positions. The large amount of variation in leaf anatomy is shown to be taxonomically significant within the genus.     

A NEW STRUCTURALLY PRESERVED PENNSYLVANIAN CORDAITEAN POLLEN ORGAN

Permineralized specimens of the pollen organ Gothania (Hirmer) consist of a primary axis bearing pollen cones in the axils of bracts that are four ranked. The bilaterally symmetrical primary axis consists of a uniform parenchymatous pith surrounded by up to 15 endarch-mesarch axile bundles. The cortex is two-parted and consists of an inner zone of subepidermal fibers. Bract traces arise from the ends of the ellipsoid stele. Traces to the cones are derived from the open ends of the stele, and at higher levels form a centrarch-medullated vascular system. Each pollen cone is constructed of up to 25 helically arranged scales, each vascularized by a single trace that may dichotomize. Scales are elongate and broad, and histologically composed of mesophyll parenchyma and fibrous layers. Stomata are restricted to the adaxial surface between rows of fibers. Up to 10 distal scales may be fertile, each with 4 elongate pollen sacs at the tip. Large monosaccate grains of the Felixipollenites-type are densely packed in each pollen sac. The well-preserved specimens of Gothania provide an opportunity to compare this genus with pollen cones assigned to the genus Cordaianthus, and to relate isolated plant organs to the Cordaitales.     

爬树蕨的解剖学研究

本文对爬树蕨（Ａｒｔｈｒｏｐｔｅｒｉｓｏｂｌｉｔｅｒａｔａ（Ｒ．Ｂｒ．）Ｊ．Ｓｍ）孢子体各主要器官进行了解剖学研究及对孢子进行了电子显微镜扫描观察,研究结果表明;茎的中柱具有两个新月形的维管束;幼茎的中部有髓．在较老的茎,髓部及中柱周围的细胞均特化为厚壁细胞．根属二原型中柱．木质分化方式是外始式;在对正后生木质部的两侧的皮层有几层特化为厚壁细胞。叶的叶肉细胞不分化出栅栏组织和海绵组织,为等面对。孢子囊具有纵向环带,孢子的形状、外壁的纹饰和裂缝情况均与以前的研究有所不同。     

MEDULLARY BUNDLES IN THE GENUS DAHLIA AND THEIR POSSIBLE ORIGIN

Davis , Edward L. (U. Massachusetts, Amherst.) Medullary bundles in the genus Dahlia and their possible origin. Amer. Jour. Bot. 48(2): 108–113. Illus. 1961.—The system of medullary bundles which extends throughout the stem and into the leaves and branches in D. lehmanni is described. It is suggested that this system may have arisen from leaf traces and that the condition in D. scapigera var. scapigera f. merckii and D. coccinea, in which leaf traces fail to develop secondary tissue while adjacent bundles are increasing in diameter, may represent the incipient stage of development of medullary bundles within the genus. The correspondence between the occurrence of medullary bundles and the sectional division of the genus on taxonomic grounds by Sherff is noted.     

On the Current Classification System of Paleozoic Seeds

This paper summarizes the history of classifications of Paleozoic seeds and revaluates the previous classification systems of Paleozoic detached seeds. The current status of studies on Paleozoic. gymnosperms: has been deteched seeds and whole fossil gymnosperms indicates that Seward’s classification system for Paleozoic seeds inadequate since all the seeds of Cardiocarpales in his system are not cordaitean female reproductive organs as Seward’s suggested. It is shown from investigations of whole fossil plants that the members of Cardiocarpales were derived from at least three different major groups of Paleozoic gymnosperms. Moreover, Meyen’s suggestion that the gymnosperms be classified based on symmetry of seeds has been little supported since all the fossil gymnosperms have not shown structurally preserved seeds and organic attachment. In order to relate detached seeds to whole fossil gymnosperms, the present author suggests that five families: Lagenostomaceae, Pachytestaceae, Callospermariaceae, Cryptospermaceae and Cardiocarpaceae be established for Paleozoic seeds and the Order Trigonocarpales be renamed as Pachytestales since the genus Trigonocarpus does not now include structurally preserved seeds. Thus, the five families may be considered either as subdivisions of the three orders of detached seeds: Lagenostomales, Pachytestales and Cardiocarpales, or as female reproductive organs of whole fossil gymnosperms of the five Permo-Carboniferous major groups: Lyginopteridales, Medullosales, Callistophytales Gigantopteridales and Cordaitales. A Key to Paleozoic seeds is provided as follows: A. Seeds with a cupule; integument thin, simple, deeply lobed and less differentiated;nucellus united to integument up to the base of pollen chamber; pollen chamber complex ................................. Lagenostomales, Lagenostomaceae A. Seeds without a cupule; integument thick, complex, unlobed and differentiated into several layers; nucellus free within integument except at the base; pollon chamber simple ................................................................................................ B B. Seeds radially symmetrical in shape; integumentary bundles present; nucellus bundles typical ................................................... Pachytestales, Pachytestaceae B. Seeds bilaterally symmetrical in shape; integumentary bundles present or absent; nucellus bundles often untypical .................................... C (Cardiocarpales) C. Bundles absent in integument; main bundle C-shaped in transverse section with a sclerenchyma bundle ............................................ Cryptospermaceae C. Bundles present in integument; main bundle not C-shaped in transverse section without a sclerenchyma bundle ......................................................... D D. Seeds very small with secretory cavities in integument; nucellus bundles limited in nucellus platform .......................................... Callospermariaceae D. Seeds large without secretory cavities in integument; nucellus bundles limited in nucellus platform or not ....................................... Cardiocarpaceae     

Stem anatomy of the dwarf subshrub Cressa cretica L. (Convolvulaceae)

Stem anatomy and development of medullary phloem are studied in the dwarf subshrub Cressa cretica L. (Convolvulaceae). The family Convolvulaceae is dominated by vines or woody climbers, which are characterized by the presence of successive cambia, medullary- and included phloem, internal cambium and presence of fibriform vessels. The main stems of the not winding C. cretica shows presence of medullary (internal) phloem, internal cambium and fibriform vessels, whereas successive cambia and included phloem are lacking. However, presence of fibriform vessels is an unique feature which so far has been reported only in climbing members of the family. Medullary phloem develops from peri-medullary cells after the initiation of secondary growth and completely occupies the pith region in fully grown mature plants. In young stems, the cortex is wide and formed of radial files of tightly packed small and large cells without intercellular air spaces. In thick stems, cortical cells become compressed due to the pressure developed by the radial expansion of secondary xylem, a feature actually common to halophytes. The stem diameter increases by the activity of a single ring of vascular cambium. The secondary xylem is composed of vessels (both wide and fibriform), fibres, axial parenchyma cells and uni-seriate rays. The secondary phloem consists of sieve elements, companion cells, axial and ray parenchyma cells. In consequence, Cressa shares anatomical characteristics of both climbing and non-climbing members. The structure of the secondary xylem is correlated with the habit and comparable with that of other climbing members of Convolvulaceae.     

FLORAL STRUCTURE AND ORGANOGENESIS IN PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM (BERBERIDACEAE)

The life cycle of Podophyllum can be divided into two phases, a subterranean phase during which a conspicuous winter mixed terminal bud forms at the end of a rhizome, and an aerial phase, during which the primordia of the structures within the winter bud give rise the next spring to an aerial shoot composed of a stem, 2 leaves, and a single flower. The transition from a vegetative to a floral apex occurs at the end of July, when the apical meristem becomes a globoid structure. During the first and second weeks of August, the floral organs are laid down along the sides of an elongated floral apex. The order of initiation of the floral organs is sepals, petals, stamens, gynoecium, and stamens. Petal primordia are initiated in early August, but growth ceases after they attain a height of about 2 mm. This inhibition persists until the middle of May in the next growing season, when the petals grow to 12 mm within 2 weeks. At anthesis the petals have enlarged to a length of 2 cm or more. The gynoecium is usually composed of a single terminal carpel. The ovules are chiefly supplied by branches from a ventral bundle complex, but that is supplemented by medullary bundles that are formed in the base of the gynoecium, below the loculus. It could be argued that these medullary bundles are surviving remnants of the vascular supply to a second carpel, no longer extant. A transmitting tract extends from the stigma about half the distance to the loculus. The tract is lined with unicellular glandular cells and is open from the stigma to the loculus.     

An Early Cytochemical Marker of Commitment to Stelar Differentiation in Meristems from Dicotyledonous Plants

A cytochemical study of root apices from Vicia faba and Pisumsativum showed esterase activity to be present in the stele,root cap and rhizodermis, but almost completely absent fromthe developing cortex and quiescent centres. The meristem cellsgiving rise to the cortex were almost negative whilst thosegiving rise to the stele were positive for esterase activity.Cambia from roots, shoots and petioles of a number of dicotyledonousspecies were all positive for esterase activity. It is proposedthat esterase activity may be used as an early marker of commitmentto differentiation into stele in roots of dicotyledonous plants,and that the cambia are fully committed meristems. Pisum sativum L., Vicia fabaL., garden pea, broad bean, meristems, stelar differentiation, esterase activity, xylem differentiation, cytochemistry, cambium     

Morphological studies on the genusClematis linn. VIII. Floral and inflorescence anatomy inClematis patens with eight-sepaled flowers

The vascular anatomy of inflorescence axes and flowers ofClematis patens have been studied. The species shows a unique behaviour of the vascular bundles in the transition node from vegetative stem to pedicel: stelar bundles increase in number from six to eight as they ascend through the transition node so that the number of vascular bundles coincides with that of sepals. In the pedicel stele the resulting eight bundles are disposed opposite to eight sepals. respectively; each sepal receives its vascular supply from the bundle facing it. Morphological and anatomical evidence suggests that the calyx of eight sepals in this species should be interpreted as having consisted originally of four pairs of opposite organs, rather than as having been derived secondarily through chorisis of sepals from a calyx of four sepals as seen in most other species ofClematis.     

RADIAL GROWTH IN THE CYCADALES

The development of radial growth which leads to the pachycaulous form was investigated in eight of the 10 genera of the Cycadales; i.e., Ceratozamia, Cycas, Dioon, Encephalartos, Macrozamia, Microcycas, Stangeria, and Zamia. In all taxa, development of radial growth is essentially the same: a primary thickening meristem is differentiated in the stelar region of the cotyledonary node of the seedling at germination and produces derivatives mainly centrifugally. This primary thickening meristem (PTM) then differentiates acropetally and becomes continuous with the peripheral zone of the shoot apex. At first the PTM is a vertical cylinder, but as the seedling continues to grow into an adult plant, the PTM shows a more horizontal orientation (like an open umbrella) and produces the broad cortex. Secondary growth is by a vascular cambium which produces secondary xylem to the inside and secondary phloem to the outside. The broad pith originates from derivatives of the rib meristem of the massive shoot apex. The seedling and young plant is composed of a shortened shoot (i.e., no internodes) produced by the PTM and rib meristem, and a large fleshy primary root which results from a diffuse growth pattern. Individual cells in both the pith and cortex of the root divide. Their derivatives divide at right angles to the original division plane. Thus, quartets and even octets of cells are recognizable and can be traced to individual parent cells.     

桂南爬树蕨的组织结构研究

本文对桂南爬树蕨的主要器官进行了解剖结构的研究,结果表明：茎的中柱为仅有两个新月型的维管束,中柱内及其周围的机械组织形成“８”字形。与爬树蕨相同,为新的中柱类型,中柱周围的几层皮层组织特化为机械组织的起始位置为对正维管束长轴的中央。而髓部的机械组织分化的起点是在中轴的中间位置,呈线形,同时向两侧分化。木质部分化为沿圆周线方向两端式,为新的分化方式。叶为等面叶,与爬树蕨相比,叶的厚度小,叶肉细胞层数少且细胞排列紧密,机械组织明显少。叶缘近圆形。根为二原型,直径比后者略小些。孢子类型与爬树蕨相同,孢子囊群无囊群盖。