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ANDROSPORE [1 record]

Record 1 2006-05-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Morphology and General Physiology
  • Plant Biology
  • Biotechnology
  • Botany
DEF

An asexual spore which gives rise to a dwarf male plant.

CONT

... evidence from microspores show that deep weathering processes were active in the late Precambrian.

OBS

[Microspore is the] smaller of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; [it] develops in the pollen sac into a male gametophyte.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
  • Biologie végétale
  • Biotechnologie
  • Botanique
DEF

Spore, produite par un microsporange, à l'origine d'un gamétophyte mâle.

CONT

Chaque microspore haploïde (i.e. à «n» chromosomes) amorce, au sein du sac pollinique (aussi désigné microsporange), un développement qui la transformera en un tissu à peu de cellules. Ce tissu va devenir un gamétophyte mâle [...]

CONT

Dans le cas des monoïques, le sporocyste va former une zoospore (ou androspore) qui va s'insérer dans la cellule se trouvant sous l'oosphère puis va former un mâle nain qui, lui, ira féconder l'oosphère.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Morfología y fisiología general
  • Biología vegetal
  • Biotecnología
  • Botánica
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