Premium
Pollen morphology of Cicer L. ‐ wild and cultivated annual species
Author(s) -
Chaturvedi M.,
Yunus D.,
Datta K.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
feddes repertorium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1522-239X
pISSN - 0014-8962
DOI - 10.1002/fedr.19951060110
Subject(s) - reticulate , pollen , biology , botany , morphology (biology) , zoology
Pollen morphological studies have been carried out in all the annual species of Cicer L. including four varieties of the cultivated species C. arietinum , using LM and SEM. Pollen grains are 3‐zonocolporate with large lolongate endocolpia in C. arietinum, C. cuneatum, C. judaicum, C. pinnatifidum, C. reticulatum and C. yamashitae , and 3‐parasyncolporate in C. bijugum, C. chorassanicum and C. echinospermum . Exine surface ornamentation in these species is reticulate, fossulatereticulate or pitted at the mesocolpium. In case of reticulate exine surface, the number of lumina/cm 2 counted at the mesocolpium has been used as an additional parameter for delineating the species. A pollen morphological similarity between the wild species C. reticulatum and the cultivated species C. arietinum with respect to apertural feature and exine surface ornamentation supports the view of LADIZINSKY and ADLER (1976a, b), that the former species could be the possible wild progenitor of the cultivated chickpea.