Atlas of Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants

by Mauro Cresti, Stephen Blackmore, Jacobus L. van Went

Overview

Comprising about one hundred plates this atlas documents and describes the processes concerning the sexual reproduction in higher plants. It is dividedinto three parts: - Anther Development - Pistil Development - Progamic Phase and Fertilization. The scanning, transmission electron and light micrographs are all of immaculate quality and - for the viewer's orientation - almost each plate is complemented by a scheme showing a larger area of the plant indicating the site of the section. Together with instructive texts, the often striking images provide a valuable introduction into plant reproductive cell structures for researchers and advanced students of genetics, plantbreeding and cell biology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642634765
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	09/27/2012
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
Pages:	249
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 10.91(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

1: Anther Development.- Plate 1: Microsporangium.- Plate 2: Early stage of microsporogenesis.- Plate 3: Early stage of microsporogenesis.- Plate 4: Early stage of microsporogenesis.- Plate 5: Binucleate tapetum.- Plate 6: Tetrad formation.- Plate 7: Tetrad formation.- Plate 8: Microspore development.- Plate 9: Microspore development.- Plate 10: Microspore release from tetrad.- Plate 11: Microspore-tapetum relation.- Plate 12: Microspore and tapetum development.- Plate 13: Tapetum development.- Plate 14: Tapetum development.- Plate 15: Microspore-tapetum relation ship.- Plate 16: Tapetum/microspore interaction.- Plate 17: Abnormal microspore development.- Plate 18: Microspore mitosis.- Plate 19: Generative cell formation.- Plate 20: Generative cell development.- Plate 21: Anther organization at bicellular pollen stage.- Plate 22: Pollen maturation.- Plate 23: Mature bicellular pollen.- Plate 24: Vegetative cell of mature pollen grain.- Plate 25: Generative cell at the mature pollen grain.- Plate 26: Mature bicellular pollen.- Plate 27: Generative cell wall.- Plate 28: Generative cell.- Plate 29: Generative cell.- Plate 30: Vegetative cell.- Plate 31: Division of generative cell.- Plate 32: Tricellular pollen grain.- Plate 33: Sperm cell.- Plate 34: Cytoplasm vegetative cell.- Plate 35: Opening of the anther.- Plate 36: Pollen morphology.- Plate 37: Pollen wall ultrastructure.- 2: Pistil Development.- Plate 38: Ovule morphology.- Plate 39: Early prophase of megasporogenesis.- Plate 40: Metaphase of megasporogenesis.- Plate 41: Cytokinesis after meiosis I of megasporogenesis.- Plate 42: Dyad stage of megasporogenesis.- Plate 43: Mature embryo sac.- Plate 44: Egg apparatus.- Plate 45: Synergid development.- Plate 46: Filiform apparatus of synergids.- Plate 47: Synergid ultrastructure.- Plate 48: Egg cell.- Plate 49: Egg cell.- Plate 50: Central cell.- Plate 51: Central cell.- Plate 52: Antipodal cells.- Plate 53: Intergumentary tape turn.- Plate 54: Embryo sac isolation.- Plate 55: Isolated embryo sac.- Plate 56: Dry stigma.- Plate 57: Dry stigma.- Plate 58: Dry stigma.- Plate 59: Wet stigma.- Plate 60: Wet stigma.- Plate 61: Style and stigma.- Plate 62: Stylar transmitting tissue.- Plate 63: Stylar transmitting tissue.- Plate 64: Stylar transmitting tissue.- Plate 65: Stylar transmitting tissue.- Plate 66: Stylar canal.- Plate 67: Stylar canal.- 3: Progamic Phase and Fertilization.- Plate 68: Pollination.- Plate 69: Pollen hydration.- Plate 70: Pollen activation.- Plate 71: Pollen germination.- Plate 72: Pollen germination.- Plate 73: Pollen germination.- Plate 74: Pollen germination.- Plate 75: Pollen tube growth.- Plate 76: Pollen germination.- Plate 77: Pollen tube ultrastructure.- Plate 78: Pollen tube growth.- Plate 79: Pollen tube growth.- Plate 80: Pollen tube cytoskeleton.- Plate 81: Pollen tube growth.- Plate 82: Pollen tube growth.- Plate 83: Pollen tube growth.- Plate 84: Pollen tube growth.- Plate 85: Pollen tube growth.- Plate 86: Generative cell division.- Plate 87: Sperm cell formation.- Plate 88: Pollen tube growth.- Plate 89: Pollen tube growth.- Plate 90: Pollen tube growth.- Plate 91: Gametophytic incompatibility.- Plate 92: Pollen tube growth.- Plate 93: Pollen tubes in the ovary.- Plate 94: Pollen tube entering the ovule.- Plate 95: Pollen tube in micropyle.- Plate 96: Pollen tube growth in the nucellus.- Plate 97: Pollen tube entrance into the embryo sac.- Plate 98: Zygote and endosperm.- Plate 99: Embryo and endosperm development.- Plate 100: Globular embryo.- Plate 101: Embryo development.- References.- Plant Index.