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ULTRASTRUCTURAL CHANGES IN HAPLOID EMBRYOIDS OF LARIX DECIDUA DURING EARLY EMBRYOGENESIS
Author(s) -
Rohr Rene,
Aderkas Patrick,
Bonga Jan M.
Publication year - 1989
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.1537-2197.1989.tb15127.x
Subject(s) - amyloplast , biology , endoplasmic reticulum , microbiology and biotechnology , suspensor , plastid , chloroplast , ultrastructure , embryogenesis , botany , somatic embryogenesis , biochemistry , embryo , gene
Cultures of haploid tissue derived from megagametophyte tissue were investigated at various stages of embryoid development. At the earliest stage of development the cells were vacuolate and plastids and mitochondria were simple in structure. Eventually, embryonal domes were formed which in turn, produced suspensor cells. As the embryoid developed, its apical cells showed increased complexity of plastids, eventually developing chloroplasts and amyloplasts. In addition, the vacuolar volume in the cells was reduced, while vesicle production increased. Cristae in mitochondria became more apparent. In the suspensor cells, plastids remained as leucoplasts and amyloplasts without any internal membrane structures. Mitochondria became more developed and vesicle number increased in the long cells. Smooth endoplasmic reticulum, which was the most common form of this class of membrane, was reduced by the cotyledonary stage and replaced by rough endoplasmic reticulum. Phenolic deposits appeared with maturation of the suspensor, and an extracellular matrix of PATAg (Thiery) positive polysaccharide was detected between the cells.