大车前胚乳发育的超微结构研究

采用透射电镜技术对大车前(Plantago major L.)胚乳发育的超微结构进行了研究。结果表明:(1)大车前为细胞型胚乳;初生胚乳核经一次横分裂产生1个珠孔室细胞和1个合点室细胞;珠孔室两次纵向分裂一次横向分裂形成2层8个细胞,位于上层的4个细胞发育为4个珠孔吸器,位于下层的4个细胞发育为胚乳本体;合点室细胞进行一次核分裂,发育为两核的合点吸器。(2)珠孔吸器呈管状插入珠被组织,珠孔端细胞壁加厚呈现少量分支并具有壁内突,壁内突周围细胞质里分布着大量线粒体、粗面内质网、高尔基体、质体等,细胞核与核仁明显,细胞质浓厚,代谢活动旺盛;球胚期,珠孔吸器的体积呈现最大值,珠孔吸器周围的珠被组织均被水解,形成明显的空腔。珠孔吸器从珠被组织吸收并转运营养物质至胚乳本体,参与胚乳的构建与营养物质的贮藏。球胚后期,珠孔吸器逐渐退化。(3)4个胚乳本体原始细胞具旺盛的分生能力,经不断的平周与垂周分裂增加胚乳细胞数目,使胚乳本体呈现圆球体状,并将胚包围其中;珠孔吸器、合点吸器以及珠被绒毡层吸收转运的营养物质贮存在胚乳本体;球胚后期,随着胚柄的退化,胚体周围的胚乳细胞被水解,为发育的胚所利用。(4)合点吸器的2个细胞核与核仁巨大,线粒体、质体、高尔基体、内质网主要绕核分布,液泡化明显;胚体与胚乳本体的体积增大,逐渐将合点吸器向胚珠合点部位挤压,合点吸器周围的合点组织逐渐被水解,形成巨大空腔。合点吸器自珠心组织吸收并转运营养物质至胚乳本体,参与胚乳的结构构建与营养物质的贮藏。球胚后期,合点吸器逐渐失去功能,呈现退化状态。     

DEVELOPMENT OF THE SEED AND FRUIT IN RHINANTHUS MAJOR AND R. SEROTINUS

There are seven sessile, campylotropous, discoid ovules in each loculus of the anteroposteriorly flattened bilocular ovary. They are arranged alternately in two rows in each chamber on the axile placenta which is nodular where the ovules are borne. Nucellus degenerates early except at the chalazal end of the curved embryo sac, and the inntermost layer of the integument functions as endothelium. The aggressive, multinucleate micropylar haustorium grows as a tubular body through the micropylar canal and ramifies in the placenta while the two-nucleate chalazal haustorium creates a large space by digesting a good deal of the chalazal tissue. Endosperm is differentiated into three regions: the middle storage, the haustorial micropylar, and the chalazal. Thickness of the integument is considerably added to by the endothelium and by its surrounding meristematic zone of the integument. There are two prominent wings on the dorsal and smaller ones on the lateral faces of the cochlidiospermous seed, its ventral face being occupied by a prominent basal body. A heavily cutinized envelope, formed by the endothelium, surrounds the ovoid storage endosperm. Testa of the seed is mainly composed of the thickened epidermis and the endothelium. The micropylar and the chalazal parts of the endosperm become tanniferous and serve to plug the two ends of the seed. Embryo is straight, and it bears two cotyledons and two plumular leaves.     

中国特有河口异叶苣苔（苦苣苔科）胚胎学研究

对河口异叶苣苔的胚胎学观察旨在为该属的系统学研究提供参考。该种的花药药壁由表皮、药室内壁、中岐和绒层４层细胞组成。２－３－核细胞在绒毡层频繁出现。胚珠属倒生,单珠被和薄珠心。胚囊发育属蓼型。该种胚囊发中的双大孢子母细胞现象,分别为并列和前后排列型。前者发育至双并列四分体,后者发育到呈棱形的４个大孢子。胚乳的发育属细胞型。并在合点端和珠也端分别具有吸器。珠孔吸器发育早期为单核、２－细胞、后期为两核、２－细胞或单核、４－细胞,有时为多细胞,并在发育过程中向外伸长形成外珠孔。合点吸器为两核。由于合点吸器和珠孔吸器的活动,位于珠被最外层细胞的珠和被绒毡层之间的２－３层细胞逐渐解体和被吸收,胚的发生和发育属柳叶菜型,在胚的发育过程中,胚乳几乎被吸收耗尽,仅利下一层胚乳细胞紧贴内种皮,成熟种子的种皮由珠被最外层细胞和珠被绒毡层发育而来,本文对河口异叶苣苔的胚胎发育过程员苦苣苔科其它类群进行了广泛的比较和讨论。     

Development of endosperm inScrophularia himalensis with a discussion on the variation in the endosperm of the tribeScrophularieae (Scrophulariaceae)

Scrophularia himalensis has anab initio cellular endosperm. A transverse division separates a micropylar chamber from a chalazal chamber. The second division is vertical in both, the third is also vertical but at right angles to the second and restricted to the micropylar chamber just as the fourth transverse division. The four-celled micropylar haustorium is branched, highly aggressive, and persists for a long time during seed development. The bicelled chalazal haustorium is non-aggressive and is relatively short-lived. The endosperm proper is ruminate. Variation in the early ontogeny of the endosperm and the structure of endosperm haustoria in the tribeScrophularieae are evaluated.     

Development of megagametophyte, embryo, and seed in Senna corymbosa (Lam.) H.S. Irwin & Barneby (Leguminosae – Caesalpinioideae)

The main aspects of seed ontogeny in Senna corymbosa were studied by standard anatomical microtechniques for light microscope observations. The results revealed an ana-campylotropous, bitegmic, and crassinucelate mature ovule. A single archesporocyte developed by an archesporial cell enlargement from the subhypodermal multicellular archesporium. Meiosis originated linear or T-shaped megasporic tetrads. The functional megaspore was the chalazal one. Megagametophytic development conformed to the Polygonum type. Fertilization was porogamic. Endosperm development was free nuclear and conformed to a chalazal haustorium. Cellular endosperm was initiated from the micropylar end during the globular embryo stage. Embryogeny derived from a linear proembryonal tetrad. The mature embryo showed an oblique axis. The testa derived from the outer ovular integument. Nucellar and endosperm remnants, and the micropylar region of the inner ovular integument, persisted at embryo maturity. The absence of a pleurogram would be adaptative to wetland habitats. The taxonomic use of the mature embryo axis in the Cassieae and the phylogenetic employment of megasporic arrangements in Leguminosae needs some reinterpretation.  © 2007 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society , 2007, 153 , 169–179.     

Ephemeral and non-ephemeral structures during seed development in two Cytisus species (Papilionoideae,Leguminosae)

Abstract

Seed formation involves not only the embryo and endosperm development, but also the formation of a series of either ephemeral or non-ephemeral structures. In this article, we study several of those structures in Cytisus multiflorus and Cytisus striatus. The endosperm development is first nuclear and later cellular, except for the chalazal area, whose development is always nuclear. It generates, in the early developmental stages, a sac-like haustorium. As the seed develops, two structures seem to be closely related to nutrient mobilization to the embryo sac: on the one hand, a group of cells and a channel, located in the chalazal area and closely related between them and to the endosperm haustorium, which could be interpreted as a hypostase and on the other hand, an endothelium, derived from the inner integument, which later degenerates leaving no trace in the mature seed. All of these structures would be associated with the directionality of assimilates from ovule tissues to embryo sac. In mature seed and surrounding the embryo appears a unicellular layer of cells rich in proteins (aleurone layer), which is the origin of the outermost layer of the cellular endosperm. The seed coat is made up only of the outer integument.     

Seed ontogeny in Adesmia securigerifolia (Fabaceae-Adesmieae)

A study of the reproductive processes of Adesmia securigerifolia from bud to mature seed was carried out by means of field observations and the paraffin technique. Observations revealed the following new contributions to the study of legume embryology: 1) after fertilization, a small nucellar haustorium, or micropylar nucellar beak, was observed for the first time, originating from two obliterating nucellar cells that extended outwards. Their globose distal end comes in contact with the internal carpel wall, while the wedge shaped base stretches into the micropyle; a suspensor consisting of five or more cells - the two basal cells are large and falcate and fit into the micropylar pore - coexists with the undivided polar nuclei thus showing that endosperm formation begins after zygote division; 2) at the young embryo stage, a sac- shaped nuclear haustorium, formed by the endosperm, adjoins the outer integument and is not connected to the chalaza, or any vascular element; at the hilar level, a nucellar projection is formed in connection with the haustorial coenocytic endosperm. This projection persists up to the mature seed stage when it starts to degenerate, after performing another linking with the embryo nutrition system; 3) at the mature seed stage, the seed coat evolving from the outer integument has a single macrosclereid layer, though inclusions in the cell vacuoles simulate the presence of more layers and/or transverse walls. The lens, a hypodermal layer of osteosclereids (hour-glass cells), and the astrosclereids are also described.     

Embryological Studies on Sagittaria guayanensis H. B. K. Subsp. lappula (D. Don) Bojin (Alismataceae)

This paper deals with the embryological characteristics of Sagittaria guayanensis H. B.K. subsp. lappula (D. Don) Bojin. The anther wall development follows the Monocotyledonous type. The cytokinesis of microspore mother cell in meiosis is of the Successive type. The tetrads of microspores show an isobilateral arrangement, and the mature pollen grains are 3-celled. The ovule is bitegminous, pseudo-crassinucellate and anatropous. The megaspore mother cell originates directly from a single archesporial cell. The mature embryo sac consists of 7 cells including 8 nuclei and conforms to the Allium type. The two polar nuclei do not fuse into a secondary nucleus before fertilization. Instead, one sperm fuses with the micropylar end polar nucleus first , and the fertilized polar nucleus then migrates to the chalazal end, where it fuses with the second polar nucleus, forming the primary endosperm nucleus. The embryo development conforms to the Caryophyllad type. The mature embryo is U-shaped and forms the embryonic shoot apex accompanied by two leaves. The endosperm development corresponds to the Helobial type. The primary endosperm nucleus (invariably lying in the chalazal part of the embryo sac) divides and forms two chambers:large micropylar one and small chalazal one. The chalazal endosperm chamber remains binucleate, while, in the micropylar chamber free nuclear divisions occur and then cellnlarization takes place. During the embryo formation the endosperm gradually degrades and can not be found in the mature seed. The subgenus Lophotocarpus is different from the subgenus Sagittaria in some embryological aspects, especially in the structure of mature embryo sac and the double fertilization process.     

冠果草的胚胎学研究

冠果草花药壁的发育为单子口十型,绒毡层为周原质团型。小孢子母细胞减数分裂为连续型,四分体呈左右对称式排列,成熟花粉为三细胞型。双珠被,假厚珠心,倒生胚珠。胚囊发育为葱型,成熟胚囊的特点是两个极核分别位于中央细胞两端,不融合成次生核。受精过程中,一个精于与卵核融合形成合子,另一精子先与珠孔端极核融合,之后受精极核再移动到合点端与另一极核融合,形成初生胚乳核。胚的发育为石竹型。成熟胚呈马蹄形,具有2片真叶。胚乳发育为沼生目型。随着胚的发育,胚乳细胞逐渐解体,成熟种子中无胚乳。     

Alisma embryogenesis: The development and ultrastructure of the suspensor

Summary The development of the suspensor (consisting of a basal cell and a few chalazal cells) inAlisma plantagoaquatica andA. lanceolatum was investigated using cytochemical methods, light and electron microscopy. The basal cell becomes differentiated during the first three days of embryo development. As a result of endopolyploidization the volume of the nucleus rapidly increases, as does the quantity of chromatin it contains and the size of the nucleolus. As basal cell grows, its cytoplasm increases in volume and the number of organelles increase, and wall ingrowths begin to form on the walls at the micropylar pole of the cell. The full development and functioning of the suspensor occurs during the next three days. The enormous basal cell then attains its maximum degree of differentiation: its nucleus reaches a ploidy of 256n or 512n, the micropylar transfer wall is fully developed, as is the cytoplasm, rich in proteins, ribonucleic acids (RNA) and organelles, particularly dictyosomes and long cisternae of the rough endoplasmic reticulum. The chalazal suspensor cells joining the embryo proper to the basal cell also become differentiated. In the seven-day embryo the suspensor begins to degenerate which coincides with the cellularization of the endosperm at the micropylar pole of the embryo sac. The senescence of the suspensor involves the degradation of the nucleus, increasing cytoplasmic vacuolization, and a distinct decrease in protein and RNA content, first in the basal cell, then in the chalazal suspensor cells. Analysis of the development and ultrastructure of the basal suspensor cell suggests that it plays the role of an active metabolic transfer cell, translocating nutrients from the maternal tissues via the chalazal suspensor cells to the growing embryo proper.     

Embryo and Endosperm Development in Isatis Tinctoria L. and the Histochemical Study of Its Storage Reserve

The ovule is anatropous and bitegmic. The nuceIlar cells have disorganized except the chalazal proliferating tissue. The curved embryo sac comprises an egg apparatus and a central cell with two palar nuclei and wall ingrowths on its micropylar lateral wall. The antipodal cells disappear. Embryo development is of the Onagrad type. The filament suspensor grows to a length of 785 μm and degenerats at tarpedo embryo stage. The basal cell produces wall ingrowths on the micropylar end wall and lateral wall. The cells of mature embryo contain many globular protein bodies, 2.5–7.5 μm in diameter, composed of high concentration of protein and phytin, insoluble polysaccharide and lipid. The cells, except procambium, also contain many small starch grains. Some secretory cavities scattered in the ground tissue have liquidlike granules composed of protein, ploysacchaide and lipid. Endosperm development follows the nuclear pattern. At the late heart embryo stage, the endosperm around the embryo and the upper suspensor and the peripheral endosperm of the basal region of the U-shaped embryo sac becomes cellular. The endosperm at micropylar and chalazal ends remains free nuclear phase until the late bended cotyledon stage. Wall ingrowths at both micropylar and chalazal end wall and lateral wall of the embryo sac become more massive during endosperm development. Wall ingrowths also occur on the outer walls of the outer layer endosperm cells at both ends and lateral region of the embryo sac. When the embryo matures, many layers of chalazal endosperm ceils including 2–4 layers of transfer cells, a few of micropylar endosperm cells and 1–5 layers of peripheral endosperm cells are present. The nutrients of the embryo and endosperm at different stages of development are also discussed.     

西瓜胚和胚乳的发育

应用显微技术对西瓜胚和胚乳的发育过程进行了观察并分析了西瓜胚珠败育的原因。西瓜胚发育属紫菀型。合子第一次分裂为不均等分裂 ,形成的基细胞体积明显较顶细胞大 ,两细胞均含有多个液泡。原胚发育过程中没有明显的胚柄。最外层的原胚细胞 ,与胚乳细胞相邻的壁上被胼胝质物质包围 ,且无外连丝存在 ;与胚囊壁相接的壁上无壁内突结构。胚的子叶体积增长的同时 ,子叶细胞内积累蛋白质和脂类物质 ,多糖物质的含量下降。胚乳发育属核型 ,在球形胚期开始自珠孔端向合点端细胞化 ,胚子叶分化出后开始自珠孔端向合点端退化。胚乳合点端在球形胚早期形成发达的胚乳吸器 ,开始呈游离核状态 ,后细胞化 ,在心型胚期之后退化。     

Seed fertilization, development, and germination in Hydatellaceae (Nymphaeales): Implications for endosperm evolution in early angiosperms

New data on endosperm development in the early-divergent angiosperm Trithuria (Hydatellaceae) indicate that double fertilization results in formation of cellularized micropylar and unicellular chalazal domains with contrasting ontogenetic trajectories, as in waterlilies. The micropylar domain ultimately forms the cellular endosperm in the dispersed seed. The chalazal domain forms a single-celled haustorium with a large nucleus; this haustorium ultimately degenerates to form a space in the dispersed seed, similar to the chalazal endosperm haustorium of waterlilies. The endosperm condition in Trithuria and waterlilies resembles the helobial condition that characterizes some monocots, but contrasts with Amborella and Illicium, in which most of the mature endosperm is formed from the chalazal domain. The precise location of the primary endosperm nucleus governs the relative sizes of the chalazal and micropylar domains, but not their subsequent developmental trajectories. The unusual tissue layer surrounding the bilobed cotyledonary sheath in seedlings of some species of Trithuria is a belt of persistent endosperm, comparable with that of some other early-divergent angiosperms with a well-developed perisperm, such as Saururaceae and Piperaceae. The endosperm of Trithuria is limited in size and storage capacity but relatively persistent.     

Seed formation in two species of Adesmia (Fabaceae): co‐occurrence of micropylar and lateral endosperm haustoria in legumes and its taxonomic value

Seed ontogeny of Adesmia bicolor and Adesmia latifolia was analysed using light microscopy and standard histological techniques. Fertilization was porogamic. Linear proembryonal tetrads were observed in A. bicolor. The robust elongated suspensors possessed specialized basal cells. The nucellar epidermis became endothelial. The free‐nuclear endosperm produced a micropylar, filamentous and ephemeral haustorium and a lateral sac‐like haustorium at the funicular side. The cellular endosperm was initiated from the micropylar zone after the cordiform embryo stage. It mostly disintegrated in mature seeds. The sclerified bilayered testa was derived from the outer ovular integument. Different astrosclereid arrangements beyond the lens in both Adesmia species may be related to the different habitats of the two species. The occurrence of both micropylar and lateral nuclear endosperm haustoria has so far not been reported in Fabaceae and is the most distinctive embryological character of Adesmieae. The taxonomic value of the mostly uniform morphology of the suspensor in the Adesmia species studied could also be relevant. The nature of seed endothelia in many Fabaceae requires accurate redetermination prior to taxonomic use. © 2008 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2008, 158 , 602–612.     

西瓜胚乳吸器的发育及ATP酶的超微细胞化学定位

报道了西瓜（Citrullus lanatus)胚乳吸器发育过程,并对胚乳吸器细胞中的ATP酶进行了超微细胞化学定位,球形胚早期,胚囊合点端的壁伸长发育成一管状胚乳吸器,进而吸器靠近乳本体端膨大为囊状,球形胚晚期吸器自珠孔端向合点端逐渐细胞化,胚分化出子叶时,胚乳吸器自合点端向珠孔端退化,在刚形成的胚乳吸器细胞中,ATP酶活性反应主要分布在细胞的核膜,内质网上,胞间连丝和吸器细胞壁内的小球状物上也有较强的ATP酶活性反应;在开始退化的吸器细胞中,核膜上的ATP酶性的反应减弱较早,内质网稍晚,进一步退化的胚乳吸器细胞中,ATP酶主要集中分布在细胞壁,细胞间隙内,核上几乎没有ATP酶性反应,内质网上仅有微弱的ATP酶反应。     

Rhinanthus serotinus (Schönheit) Oborny (Scrophulariaceae): immunohistochemical and ultrastructural studies of endosperm chalazal haustorium development

Chalazal endosperm haustorium in Rhinanthus serotinus consists of a single large binucleate cell. It originates from the primary endosperm cell dividing transversely into two unequal cells: a smaller micropylar cell and a larger chalazal cell. The chalazal cell undergoes a single mitotic division, then lengthens significantly during development and functions as a chalazal endosperm haustorium. In this paper, immunofluorescent techniques, rhodamine phalloidin assay, and electron microscopy were used to examine the actin and tubulin cytoskeleton during the development of the chalazal haustorium. During the differentiation stage, numerous longitudinally oriented bundles of microfilaments ran along the axis of transvacuolar strands in haustorium. Microtubules formed intensely fluorescent areas near the nuclear envelope and also formed radial perinuclear microtubule arrays. In the fully differentiated haustorium cell, the actin cytoskeleton formed dense clusters of microfilaments on the chalazal and micropylar poles of the haustorium. Numerous microfilament bundles occurred near wall ingrowths on the chalazal wall. There were numerous clusters of microfilaments and microtubules around the huge lobed polytenic haustorial nuclei. The microfilaments were oriented longitudinally to the long axis of the haustorium cell and surrounded both nuclei. The microtubules formed radial perinuclear systems which were appeared to radiate from the surface of the nuclear envelope. The early stage of degeneration of the chalazal haustorium was accompanied by the degradation of microtubules and disruption of the parallel orientation of microtubules in the chalazal area of the cell. The degree of vacuolization increased, autophagous vacuoles appeared and the number of vesicles decreased.     

Development of Embryo and Endosperm and Nutrient Accumulation in Vigna sesquipedalis (L.) Fruwirth

The structure of embryo sac, fertilization and development of embryo and endosperm in Vigina sesquipedalis (L.) Fruwirth were investigated. Pollization occures 7–10h before anthesis, and fertilization is completed 10 h after anthesis. After fertilization, wall ingrowths are formed at the micropylar and chalazal ends of the embryo sac. Embryo development conforms to the Onagrad type, and passes through 2 or more celled proembryo, long stick-shaped, globular, heart shaped, torpedo, young embryo, growing and enlarging embryo and mature embryo. Wall ingrowths are formed on the walls of basal cells and outer walls of the cells at basal region of suspenser. The suspensor remains as the seed reaches maturity. The starch grains accumulate in the cells of cotyledons by 9–16 days after anthesis, and proteins accumulate by 12–18 days after. The endosperm development follows the nuclear type. The endosperm ceils form at the micropylar end, and remain free nuclear phase at chalazal end. The outer cells are transfer cells. Those cells at the micropylar end form folded cells with wall ingrowths. At heartembryo stage, the endosperm begins to degenerate and disintegrates before the embryo matures.     

Embryology and taxonomical position of Retzia capensis (Retziaceae)

The ovules of Retzia capensis are anatropous, unitegmic and tenuinucellate. A well-developed hypostase of concentric layers of cells is present. Embryo sac formation follows Polygonum type. The central part of the mature embryo sac contains rich amounts of starch grains, which disappear at the beginning of the endosperm development. The endosperm formation results in a chalazal haustorium of a great number of long, narrow, densely plasmatic cells, a micropylar haustorium of loosely plasmatic cells, and a middle region which in the beginning is only partly cellular, but later the whole endosperm consists of long, narrow cells. The hypostase prevents the chalazal endosperm haustorium from penetrating to the lower part of the ovule, while the micropylar haustorium is able to grow upwards into the long micropyle. The cellular endosperm formation, the formation of endosperm haustoria, of which the micropylar is most distinctive, and formation of a well-developed hypostase all indicate a close relationship to Buddleiaceae and part of Scrophulariaceae. Therefore, both Retziaceae and Buddleiaceae should be placed in the order Scrophulariales.     

Ovule morphology, embryogenesis and seed development in three Hylocereus species (Cactaceae)

Pre-embryonic and embryonic stages and seed developments were studied in the diploids Hylocereus monacanthus and Hylocereus undatus and the tetraploid Hylocereus megalanthus. Ovule morphology was similar among species except for micropyle entrance. H. monacanthus had the thickest and most robust suspensor. Embryo developmental time, measured from fertilization to maturity, was significantly more prolonged in H. megalanthus. Typical to Cactaceae, the seed coat was formed by one layer of sclerenchymatous cells, but was more lignified in H. megalanthus. Morphological features common to all species included (1) cellular type endosperm with independent patterns of development in the chalazal and micropylar zones, forming a haustorium layer from the chalazal zone to the embryo; (2) an endothelial layer surrounding the embryo sac almost complete; (3) a nucellar summit growing into the micropyle; and (4) a placental obturator and a funicle connecting the ovarian tissue to the ovule. Seed development was typically endospermic (exendospermic orthodox seeds). Anomalies included two egg cells in the same embryo sac, two embryos developing in the same ovule, and embryos developing from the chalazal pole region. Total seed number and seed viability were significantly lower in H. megalanthus than in the other two taxa. Embryos at different developmental stages were observed in aborted H. megalanthus seeds.     

Early Endosperm Development in Ovules of Soybean, Glycine max (L) Merr. (Fabaceae)

Endosperm development was studied in normally setting flowersand pods of soybean from anthesis to a pod length of 10–20mm. The free-nuclear stage following double fertilization istypified by loss of starch and increasing vacuolation. The cytoplasmprovides evidence of extensive metabolic activity. Wall ingrowths,already present at the micropylar end of the embryo sac wallprior to fertilization, develop along the lateral wall of thecentral cell as well as at the chalazal endosperm haustorium.Endosperm cellularization begins when the embryo has developeda distinct globular embryo proper and suspensor. Cellularizationstarts at the micropylar end of the embryo sac as a series ofantidinal walls projecting into the endosperm cytoplasm fromthe wall of the central cell. The free, growing ends of thesewalls are associated with vesicles, microtubules, and endoplasrnicreticulum. Pendinal walls that complete the compartmentalizalionof portions of the endosperm cytoplasm are initiated as cellplates formed during continued mitosis of the endosperm nuclei.Endosperm cell walls are traversed by plasmodesmata. This studywill provide a basis for comparison with endosperin from soybeanflowers programmed to abscise. Glycine max, soybean, endosperm, ovules