scholarly journals Cytoplasniic differentiation during microsporogenesis in higher plants

2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Dichinnson

Conspicuous cytoplasmic dedifferentiation in the pollen mother cells takes place early in the meiotic prophase of many plants. This event involves the removal of much of the cytoplasmic RNA. and the differentiation of both plastids and mitochondria to approaching the sole expression of their genomes. Much of the RNA removed from the cytoplasm passes to the nucleoplasm where it is utilised in the construction of a new `generation' of ribusomes. These new ribosomes are incorporated into cytoplasmic `nuclewhich disintegrate in the post-meiotic cytoplasm, restoring its ribosomes to pre-prophase levels. These changes are interpreted as evidence of a process by which the cytoplasm is cleansed of sporophytic control elements, both for the expression of the new gametophytic genome, and in the female cells of higher plants, for transmission to the new generation. The absence of control elements (presumably long-term messenger RNA) from the cytoplasm would result in the dedifferentiation observed in the organelles, and the low levels of reserves in these cells presumably results in characteristically lengthy and unusual redifferentiation of both plastids and mitochondria, once information-carrying molecules again enter the cytosol.

1935 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Marshak

1. Pollen mother cells exposed to low dosages of x-rays at various stages show different frequencies of chromosome abnormalities in the first meiotic anaphase. 2. Maximum frequencies of abnormalities were obtained in buds irradiated in the pachytene stage of the meiotic prophase and in the preceding mitosis. 3. These results are taken to indicate that the x-ray-sensitive portions of the chromonemata are closely approximated in pairs in pachytene and in the early mitotic prophase. The significance of this in relation to non-homologous pairing is indicated. 4. From the nature of the chromosome configurations observed it is concluded that chromonemata are two-parted when they synapse and that a chromonematic division occurs between pachytene and anaphase and during the mitotic prophase. 5. The frequencies of abnormalities show a linear relationship to dosage. 6. The diameter of the sensitive volume of the chromonema is calculated and found to approximate the diameter of some known protein molecules. 7. The linkage mechanism is found to make up about 90 per cent of the total sensitive volume which corresponds with the approximate reduction in length of the chromonema from pachytene to anaphase. 8. The relation of these sensitive volumes to the gene is discussed.


2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 754-759 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junjun Huang ◽  
Huahua Wang ◽  
Xiaojun Xie ◽  
Huanhuan Gao ◽  
Guangqin Guo

1972 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 801-808 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter B. Moens

Most, if not all of the ends of synaptonemal complexes in Rhoeo discolor pollen mother cells are attached to the nuclear envelope. At least the first 4 μm of complex adjacent to the nuclear envelope is tightly coiled. Since each of the lateral elements is associated with one chromosome it means that the two homologues of the bivalent are relationally coiled in the distal segments.


1978 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Morisset

Cytomixis occurred regularly in pollen mother cells (PMCs) of Ononis spinosa L., O. repens L. and O. arvensis L., from early meiotic prophase to telophase II. Usually only a few PMCs were affected in any anther, but occasionally whole anthers showed cytomictic patterns. Cytomixis generally was found at extremities but rarely in the median parts of anthers. Since it appeared to lead to the degeneration of affected PMCs or young microspores, it, therefore, could not give rise to aneuploidy. Cytomixis is interpreted as a pathological abnormality induced by pressure building up within the developing flower bud; it occurred where anthers pressed strongly against each other due to competition for space. It is suggested that uncoordinated growth rates of anthers and floral envelopes could account for intense cytomixis described in hybrids by various authors.


1990 ◽  
pp. 493-497
Author(s):  
M. I. Rodriguez-Garcia ◽  
J. D. Alché ◽  
A. Majewska-Sawka ◽  
M. C. Fernandez ◽  
B. Jassem

VASA ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 340-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Kralj ◽  
Irene Boos ◽  
Uwe Müller-Bühl

Background: Advances in stent technology have widened the field of indications for stent treatment of femoro-popliteal artery lesions, however the use of stents in bending arterial segments is restricted because some first- and second-generation nitinol stent designs did not respond well to the mechanical forces of femoro-popliteal segments in motion which pose a substantial risk of stent fracture inducing in-stent-stenosis. New generation nitinol stents are supposed to overcome these limitations but long-term results are rare. Patients and methods: In forty-five patients (mean age 68 y, range 50 - 85) with peripheral arterial disease (TASC II A-C, Rutherford category 2 - 5) forty-six lesions of the superficial femoral artery (37) or popliteal artery (9) were treated [25 high-grade stenoses, mean length 53 mm (range 30 - 145 mm); 21 chronic total occlusions, mean length 74 mm (range 30 - 180 mm)]. 74 % of lesions were located in the mobile bending arterial segments in the distal femoral or the popliteal segment. Clinical reevaluation performed at discharge, at 6, 12, 24, and 36 months included at least the measurement of ankle-brachial index (ABI) and duplex sonography. Results: Procedural success rate was 100 %. At 6, 12, 24, and 36 months, cumulative primary patency rate was 93.5 %, 84.8 %, 80.5 %, and 74.3 % (SE<10); freedom from target lesion revascularization rate was 95.7 %, 89.2 %, 84.9 %, and 79.3 % (SE<10); Rutherford category and ABI improved in all patients and clinical success was maintained in more than 85 % of patients. Conclusions: Sustained technical and clinical success and good clinical long-term results were achieved with Misago™ nitinol stent implantation in femoro-popliteal lesions with moderate risk for in-stent-stenosis, and in the distal femoral and popliteal mobile segment.


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