Structure and function of the microtubular cytoskeleton during megasporogenesis and embryo sac development in Gasteria verrucosa (Mill.) H. Duval
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Using immunocytochemical techniques, tubulin distribution in various stages of meiosis and embryo sac development was studied. In the archespore cell some microtubules appeared to be randomly oriented. During zygotene and pachytene, when the cell volume increases, a large number of microtubules in dispersed configurations and bundles were observed. During this stage the nucellar cells divide, and their parallel cortical microtubules play an important role in preparing the direction of cell enlargement. The protoderm cells show anticlinal-directed cortical microtubules. It can be concluded that the enlargement of the meiocyte during these early meiotic stages is influenced both by its own cytoskeleton and by growth of the nucellus. Thereafter, the microtubules function directly in meiosis and disappear for the greater part until the two-nucleate coenocyte is formed. In a four-nucleate coenocyte microtubules reappear around the nucleus; in a young synergid, randomly oriented microtubules are involved in cell shaping during the formation of the filiform apparatus; in the synergids of the mature embryo sac, many parallel arrays of microtubules are present. Microtubules are less abundant in other cells. It is concluded that the cytomorphogenesis of the developing coenocyte and embryo sac are due to cell growth of the nucellar cells together with vacuolation of the coenocyte.
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