Embryogeny of Carya and Juglans, a Comparative Study
Embryogeny of Carya and Juglans, a Comparative Study
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山核桃与核桃胚胎发生的比较研究
DOI:
10.1086/334448
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发表时间:
1934
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L. M. Langdon
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作者:
L. M. Langdon
1. The ovulate flowers both of Carya and Juglans consist of two carpels inclosed by a fleshy, cup-shaped receptacle or cupule. The foliar structures bordering the carpels and borne at the summit of the receptacle are interpreted as a perianth. Small abortive stamens occur occasionally in early stages of development of the carpellate flowers of J. mandshurica. In the ovulate flowers of Carya, neither the inner set of members of the perianth nor the stamens develop. 2. In the carpellate flowers of the Juglandaceae, an internal vertical partition (in Juglans and Carya oriented in the plane of the carpels) supports the single large, sessile ovule. As fruit development progresses in Carya, two wedge-shaped sections of a second septum are differentiated from the tissue of the endocarp, on either side of and at right angles to the middle septum. This second septum does not appear during the development of the young fruit of J. mandshurica. 3. The megasporocyte is distinguishable in the young ovules, both of C. glabra and J. mandshurica, as a slightly enlarged cell lying deep in an axial strand of the nucellus, the phases of meiosis occupying six to eight days in C. glabra; in J. mandshurica, three to four days. A linear tetrad of megaspores is formed in both, the megagametophyte developing from one of the two inner megaspores. 4. In C. glabra, 15-16 days elapsed between the early megaspore stage and the mature embryo sac; in J. mandshurica, five to six days. 5. The megagametophytes of C. glabra and J. mandshurica are normal angiosperm types in their development, and alike in essential features. That of C. glabra is larger than the gametophyte of J. mandshurica and presents a more definitely organized egg apparatus. One, in some cases both, of the synergids are destroyed by the passage of the pollen tube or tubes in the sac; but both are in evidence prior to entrance of the tubes, and frequently one persists after fertilization. In Carya the surviving synergid may produce a small proembryo. 6. There is an interval of 17-18 days between fertilization and the first division of the zygote in C. glabra; in J. mandshurica, six to seven days. In both the definitive nucleus divides immediately, a parietal layer of endosperm being one of the distinctive features of the enlarged embryo sac prior to division of the zygote. 7. Deviating from the procedure generally characterizing the proembryo of dicotyledons, the apex cell of the young proembryo in Carya and J. mandshurica does not form quadrants, but is divided by two obliquely opposed walls into three sectors. A division, vertical and at right angles to the plane of the first two partitions, creates an apical group of six cells. In general the plane of the two cotyledons and that of the long axis of the stem tip coincides with the position of the three primary sectors of the apical section of the proembryo. 8. Segmentation in the basal section of the globular proembryo is variable, especially in Juglans; nevertheless to this section may ordinarily be traced the initials of the root axis, the root cap, and an abbreviated multicellular suspensor. 9. In its flower, ovule, gametophyte, and embryo features, Juglans may be said to present characters of greater phylogenetic interest than does Carya. On the other hand, the larger and more definite character of the embryo of Carya, both in proembryonic and embryonic phases, makes this more valuable for a histogenetic study.