caa a22 4500 475806263 CHVBK 20180406123747.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00985468 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00985468 Microsporogenesis in Pinus sylvestris L. VIII. Tapetal and late pollen grain development [Elektronische Daten] [J. Rowley, J. Skvarla, B. Walles] This last portion of our developmental study ofPinus sylvestris L. pollen grains extends from just prior to the first microspore mitosis to the microsporangial dehiscence preparatory to pollen shedding. In nine years of collecting each day the duration of the above period was 7 to 11 days. Tapetal cells extended into the loculus and embraced microspores during the initial part of the above period. Thereafter tapetal cells receded, became parallel to parietal cells and so imbricated that there appeared to be two or three layers of tapetal cells. Tapetal cells were present up to the day before pollen shedding, but only rER and some mitochondria appeared to be in good condition at that time. A callosic layer (outer intine) was initiated under the endexine before microspore mitosis. After the first mitosis the first prothallial cell migrated to the proximal wall and was covered on the side next to the pollen cytoplasm by a thin "wall” joining the thick outer intine. There are plasmodesmata between pollen cytoplasm and the prothallial cell. After the second mitosis the second prothallial cell became enveloped by the outer intine. The inner intine appears after formation of the two prothallial cells but before the third mitosis. During this two-prothallial cell period before the third mitosis, plastids had large and complex fibrillar assemblies shown to be modified starch grains. After the third mitosis plastids of the pollen cytoplasm contained starch and the generative cell (antheridial initial), the product of that mitosis, is enveloped by the inner intine. On the day of pollen shedding cells are removed from the microsporangial wall by what appears to be focal autolysis. The tapetal and endothecial cells for 10-15 µm on each side of the dehiscence slit are completely removed. One or more epidermal cells are lysed, but both a thin cuticle and the very thin sporopollenin-containing peritapetal membrane remain attached to the undamaged epidermal cells bordering the dehiscence slit. Our study terminates on the day of pollen shedding with mature pollen still within the open microsporangium. At that time there is no longer a clear morphological distinction between the outer and inner intine but, judging by stain reactions, there is a chemical difference. The exine of shed pollen grains was found to be covered by small spinules on the inner surface of alveoli. These had the same spacing as the Sporopollenin Acceptor Particles (SAPs) associated with exine initiation and growth. Springer-Verlag, 2000 Antheridial cell nationallicence callose nationallicence exine nationallicence inner intine nationallicence outer intine nationallicence microsporangia nationallicence microspore nationallicence mitosis nationallicence prothallial cell nationallicence Pinus sylvestris nationallicence Sporopollenin Acceptor Particles (SAPs) nationallicence tapetum nationallicence Ubisch bodies nationallicence Rowley J. Botany Department, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden aut Skvarla J. Department of Botany, Microbiology and Oklahoma Biological Survey, 770 VanVleet Oval, Cross Hall, 73019-6131, Norman, OK, USA aut Walles B. Botany Department, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden aut Plant Systematics and Evolution Springer-Verlag 225/1-4(2000-03-01), 201-224 0378-2697 225:1-4<201 2000 225 606 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00985468 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00985468 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rowley J. Botany Department, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Skvarla J. Department of Botany, Microbiology and Oklahoma Biological Survey, 770 VanVleet Oval, Cross Hall, 73019-6131, Norman, OK, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Walles B. Botany Department, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Plant Systematics and Evolution Springer-Verlag 225/1-4(2000-03-01), 201-224 0378-2697 225:1-4<201 2000 225 606 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer