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Multiple Developmental Pathways Leading to a Single Morph: Monosulcate Pollen (Examples From the Asparagales)

2004; Oxford University Press; Volume: 95; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/aob/mci030

1095-8290

Laurent Penet, Sophie Nadot, Adrienne Ressayre, Arlette Forchioni, Léanne L. Dreyer, P. H. Gouyon,

Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases

• Background and Aims Early developmental events in microsporogenesis are known to play a role in pollen morphology: variation in cytokinesis type, cell wall formation, tetrad shape and aperture polarity are responsible for pollen aperture patterning. Despite the existence of other morphologies, monosulcate pollen is one of the most common aperture types in monocots, and is also considered as the ancestral condition in this group. It is known to occur from either a successive or a simultaneous cytokinesis. In the present study, the developmental sequence of microsporogenesis is investigated in several species of Asparagales that produce such monosulcate pollen, representing most families of this important monocot clade.