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ORIGIN AND EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF NONARTICULATED LATICIFERS IN EMBRYOS OF EUPHORBIA MARGINATA
Author(s) -
Mahlberg Paul G.,
Sabharwal Pritam S.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
american journal of botany
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.218
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1537-2197
pISSN - 0002-9122
DOI - 10.1002/j.1537-2197.1968.tb07389.x
Subject(s) - biology , cotyledon , embryo , protoplast , botany , cambium , stipule , xylem , meristem , phloem , hypocotyl , endosperm , microbiology and biotechnology , shoot
In E. marginata 12 nonarticulated laticifer initials arise in the cotyledonary node of the young embryo during the early heart stage. The initials arise progressively in the developing embryo, the first laticifers differentiating simultaneously with or shortly before the elements of the pro‐cambium. The laticifers occupy a position lateral to the six procambial strands which are formed in the embryo. Upon subsequent growth each laticifer becomes vacuolated and nuclear division unaccompanied by cytokinesis results in the formation of a coenocytic protoplast. The enlarging laticifer produces several branches, one growing into the cotyledon, another growing down along the hypocotyl penetrating toward the root meristem, and one or several growing along intercellular spaces of adjacent cells. No fusion of these branches with one another or adjoining parenchyma cells was observed.