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DIFFERENTIATION, ORGANOGENESIS, AND THE TECTONICS OF CELL WALL ORIENTATION. I. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE OVULE IN COTTON
Author(s) -
Lintilhac Philip M.,
Jensen William A.
Publication year - 1974
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.1537-2197.1974.tb06037.x
Subject(s) - ovule , biology , organogenesis , botany , microbiology and biotechnology , orientation (vector space) , evolutionary biology , embryo , genetics , geometry , gene , mathematics
This paper, the first of a series of three, raises the general question of the relationship between stress, organogenesis, and cell wall orientation in a growing structure. It outlines a short descriptive chronology of events in the prepollination development of the ovule in cotton and proceeds to a brief experimental comparison of nucellar development in tissue culture with and without integuments. The significance of the integuments as mechanical effectors is discussed in terms of stresses which they induce in the growing ovule.