THE DEVELOPMENTAL BASIS OF TRISTYLY IN EICHHORNIA-PANICULATA (PONTEDERIACEAE)
THE DEVELOPMENTAL BASIS OF TRISTYLY IN EICHHORNIA-PANICULATA (PONTEDERIACEAE)
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DOI:
10.2307/2443702
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
影响因子:
3
通讯作者:
BARRETT, SCH
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作者:
RICHARDS, JH;BARRETT, SCH
E. paniculata is a trisylous, self-compatible, emergent aquatic. A given plant produces flowers with either long, mid or short styles and 2 levels of stamens equal in length to the styles not found in that flower. Flowers of each morph have two whorls of 3 tepals, 6 stamens and 3 fused carpels. The 6 stamens differentiate into 2 sets of 3 stamens each. A relatively short set, having either short- or mid-level stamens, occurs on the upper side of the flower, while a relatively long set, having either mid- or long-level stamens, occurs on the lower side. Stamen level depends on differences among stamens in filament length and position of insertion on the floral tube. Floral parts arise in whorls of 3, but the 2 stamen whorls do not form the 2 sets of stamens found in each mature flower. Instead, stamens from both whorls make up a given set. Floral differences among morphs are not present at flower origin or floral organ initiation. Morphological differences arise first among stamen sets. The 2 sets within a flower differ prior to meiosis in the size, number, and timing of comparable developmental events in the sporogenous cells. After these initial differences arise, anther size diverges. In later developmental stages differences in filament and floral tube length, cell size, and cell number, as well as differences in the length, cell size, and cell number of styles, develop amoung morphs. This sequence of developmental events suggests that the genes controlled development in different morphs do not control flower and floral organ initiation but are first morphologically visible in sporogenous cell differentiation.