宁夏枸杞的胚胎发生和胚乳发育

宁夏枸杞的胚胎发生属茄型,由顶细胞参与胚体的形成,基细胞仅形成六细胞胚柄。胚乳发育为细胞型,但也观察到少数核型胚乳的现象。初步探讨了核型胚乳与细胞型胚乳的关系。     

EMBRYOGENY AND HISTOGENESIS IN NERIUM OLEANDER II. ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE NON-ARTICULATED LATICIFER

Mahlberg , P. G. (U. Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.) Embryogeny and histogenesis in Nerium oleander. II. Origin and development of the non-articulated Iaticifer. Amer. Jour. Bot. 48(1): 90–99. Illus. 1961.—Laticifer initials, collectively considered as a laticifer system, are differentiated in the globular embryo from meristematic cells which occupy a position within the potential procambial tissue. A total of usually 28 initials, in Nerium oleander, arise as an irregular ring of cells directly below the embryonic shoot apex, during initiation of the cotyledonary primordia. No anastomoses occur between laticifer initials. During subsequent development of the embryo, the laticifer initials grow in a bi-directional manner and penetrate into the root, cotyledons and toward the shoot apex. Upon enlargement the initials bifurcate repeatedly, many branches penetrate into the cotyledons, others grow into the cortex of the hypocotyl or penetrate between cells of the procambium. Repeated nuclear divisions within each initial result in the formation of a multinucleated protoplast in this cell type. The tips of laticifers occupy intercellular spaces during their growth; they do not penetrate into or through adjacent cells. A plexus of laticifer branches is formed within the cotyledonary node of the mature embryo. No new initials are formed during subsequent growth of the plant, rather certain branches from the cotyledonary nodal plexus penetrate into the enlarging shoot system. The nature of their growth habit and branching suggests that the tips of laticifer initials exhibit an intrusive form of growth.     

EMBRYOGENY AND REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY OF BOTHRODENDROSTROBUS MUNDUS (LYCOPSIDA)

Permineralized lycopsid megagametophytes and embryos from Upper Carboniferous strata (Westphalian A) at Burnley, England have been found within isolated megaspores assignable to Setosisporites. The specimens illustrate for the first time the reproductive biology and embryogeny of a free-sporing, bisporangiate, Paleozoic lycopod, and permit reinterpretation of the megagametophyte of Bothrodendrostrobus. Megagametophyte development is entirely endosporal. Embryogeny is comparable to that of the extant genus Isoetes, and is fundamentally different from that of the fossil lycopsid, Lepidocarpon—Lepidophloios. This further illustrates the diversity among Paleozoic lycopods and helps to clarify relationships among both fossil and extant lycopsid taxa.     

STUDIES ON THE ONTOGENY OF THE DWARF MISTLETOES,ARCEUTHOBIUM. I. EMBRYOGENY AND HISTOGENESIS

Cohen , L. I. (Washington State U., Pullman.) Studies on the ontogeny of the dwarf mistletoes, Arceuthobium. I, Embryogeny and histogenesis. Amer. Jour. Bot. 50(4): 400–407. Illus. 1963.—A complete developmental study on the origin and organization of the main tissue systems in the embryo of Arceuthobium reveals a greater degree of internal differentiation in the mature embryo than hitherto reported. The mature embryo consists of rudimentary cotyledons, a well-defined hypocotyl and a highly organized radicle. The latter develops from the remaining undifferentiated portion of the globular embryo soon after the embryonic cortex and procambium are differentiated. The radicular promeristem is organized into 4 initiating zones: (1) a uniseriate layer of apical surface initials; (2) a subapical zone of central initials; (3) a peripheral zone; and (4) a zone of procambium initials. Comparison between the dwarf mistletoe embryo and those of several nonparasitic angiosperms indicates that their ontogenies, in many respects, are essentially similar.     

韭菜未传粉子房培养中单倍体的胚胎发生和植株再生

在自然生长条件下,韭菜反足细胞可与合子同时分裂形成多细胞原胚,但很快退化,种子成熟时仅含有合子胚。在未传粉子房培养条件下,反足细胞和卵细胞可经相似的早期胚胎发生过程再生单倍体植株。高频率的胚胎发生为韭菜单倍体育种提供了一条新途径。文中讨论了反足细胞无配子生殖的有关问题。     

DNA IN GAMETOGENESIS AND EMBRYOGENY IN TRADESCANTIA

A microphotometric study of various Feulgen-stained gametophytic and sporophytic nuclei of Tradescantia paludosa was made to test the hypothesis that DNA is maintained in multiples of a basic unit within all cells of an organism. A multiple relationship was found in all tissues analyzed. The lowest amount of DNA was found in gametophytic nuclei, approximately twice and four times this amount in sporophytic nuclei, and approximately three and six times this amount in endosperm nuclei. Intermediate amounts of DNA were found only in tissues presumably undergoing an interphase synthesis of DNA preceding either cell division or endomitosis. It is concluded that within the limitations of present methods of measurement, DNA amounts show a quantitative behavior which supports the "constancy" hypothesis. Such quantitative stability of DNA gives support to the concept that DNA is associated with the stable elements of the gene.