Open AccessFemale Gametophyte Development
Author(s) -
Ramin Yadegari
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
the plant cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.324
H-Index - 341
eISSN - 1532-298X
pISSN - 1040-4651
DOI - 10.1105/tpc.018192
Subject(s) - gametophyte , sporophyte , multicellular organism , biology , ploidy , organism , botany , pollen , genetics , gene
Early in their evolution, plants acquired a life cycle that alternates between a multicellular haploid organism, the gametophyte, and a multicellular diploid organism, the sporophyte. Angiosperms have both female and male gametophytes. The female gametophyte is critical to many steps of the
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