Comprising about one hundred plates this atlas documents and describes the processes concerning the sexual reproduction in higher plants. It is dividedinto three parts: - Anther Development - Pistil Development - Progamic Phase and Fertilization. The scanning, transmission electron and light micrographs are all of immaculate quality and - for the viewer's orientation - almost each plate is complemented by a scheme showing a larger area of the plant indicating the site of the section. Together with instructive texts, the often striking images provide a valuable introduction into plant reproductive cell structures for researchers and advanced students of genetics, plantbreeding and cell biology.
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1: Anther Development.- Plate 1: Microsporangium.- Plate 2: Early stage of microsporogenesis.- Plate 3: Early stage of microsporogenesis.- Plate 4: Early stage of microsporogenesis.- Plate 5: Binucleate tapetum.- Plate 6: Tetrad formation.- Plate 7: Tetrad formation.- Plate 8: Microspore development.- Plate 9: Microspore development.- Plate 10: Microspore release from tetrad.- Plate 11: Microspore-tapetum relation.- Plate 12: Microspore and tapetum development.- Plate 13: Tapetum development.- Plate 14: Tapetum development.- Plate 15: Microspore-tapetum relation ship.- Plate 16: Tapetum/microspore interaction.- Plate 17: Abnormal microspore development.- Plate 18: Microspore mitosis.- Plate 19: Generative cell formation.- Plate 20: Generative cell development.- Plate 21: Anther organization at bicellular pollen stage.- Plate 22: Pollen maturation.- Plate 23: Mature bicellular pollen.- Plate 24: Vegetative cell of mature pollen grain.- Plate 25: Generative cell at the mature pollen grain.- Plate 26: Mature bicellular pollen.- Plate 27: Generative cell wall.- Plate 28: Generative cell.- Plate 29: Generative cell.- Plate 30: Vegetative cell.- Plate 31: Division of generative cell.- Plate 32: Tricellular pollen grain.- Plate 33: Sperm cell.- Plate 34: Cytoplasm vegetative cell.- Plate 35: Opening of the anther.- Plate 36: Pollen morphology.- Plate 37: Pollen wall ultrastructure.- 2: Pistil Development.- Plate 38: Ovule morphology.- Plate 39: Early prophase of megasporogenesis.- Plate 40: Metaphase of megasporogenesis.- Plate 41: Cytokinesis after meiosis I of megasporogenesis.- Plate 42: Dyad stage of megasporogenesis.- Plate 43: Mature embryo sac.- Plate 44: Egg apparatus.- Plate 45: Synergid development.- Plate 46: Filiform apparatus of synergids.- Plate 47: Synergid ultrastructure.- Plate 48: Egg cell.- Plate 49: Egg cell.- Plate 50: Central cell.- Plate 51: Central cell.- Plate 52: Antipodal cells.- Plate 53: Intergumentary tape turn.- Plate 54: Embryo sac isolation.- Plate 55: Isolated embryo sac.- Plate 56: Dry stigma.- Plate 57: Dry stigma.- Plate 58: Dry stigma.- Plate 59: Wet stigma.- Plate 60: Wet stigma.- Plate 61: Style and stigma.- Plate 62: Stylar transmitting tissue.- Plate 63: Stylar transmitting tissue.- Plate 64: Stylar transmitting tissue.- Plate 65: Stylar transmitting tissue.- Plate 66: Stylar canal.- Plate 67: Stylar canal.- 3: Progamic Phase and Fertilization.- Plate 68: Pollination.- Plate 69: Pollen hydration.- Plate 70: Pollen activation.- Plate 71: Pollen germination.- Plate 72: Pollen germination.- Plate 73: Pollen germination.- Plate 74: Pollen germination.- Plate 75: Pollen tube growth.- Plate 76: Pollen germination.- Plate 77: Pollen tube ultrastructure.- Plate 78: Pollen tube growth.- Plate 79: Pollen tube growth.- Plate 80: Pollen tube cytoskeleton.- Plate 81: Pollen tube growth.- Plate 82: Pollen tube growth.- Plate 83: Pollen tube growth.- Plate 84: Pollen tube growth.- Plate 85: Pollen tube growth.- Plate 86: Generative cell division.- Plate 87: Sperm cell formation.- Plate 88: Pollen tube growth.- Plate 89: Pollen tube growth.- Plate 90: Pollen tube growth.- Plate 91: Gametophytic incompatibility.- Plate 92: Pollen tube growth.- Plate 93: Pollen tubes in the ovary.- Plate 94: Pollen tube entering the ovule.- Plate 95: Pollen tube in micropyle.- Plate 96: Pollen tube growth in the nucellus.- Plate 97: Pollen tube entrance into the embryo sac.- Plate 98: Zygote and endosperm.- Plate 99: Embryo and endosperm development.- Plate 100: Globular embryo.- Plate 101: Embryo development.- References.- Plant Index.