Heterospory

Heterospory

Heterospory is the production of spores of two different sizes and sexes by the sporophytes of land plants. Heterospory was evolved from isospory independently by several plant groups in the Devonian period cite journal|title=Heterospory - the most iterative key innovation in the evolutionary history of the plant kingdom|journal=Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society|date=1994|first=R.M.|last=Bateman|coauthors=W.A. Dimichele|volume=69|issue=|pages=315–417|id= |url=|format=|accessdate=2008-01-10 ] as part of the process of evolution of the timing of sex differentiation.IM Sussex (1966) The origin and development of heterospory in vascular plants. Chapter 9 in Trends in Plant morphogenesis, e. EG Cutter, Longmans.] Heterosporic plants produce small spores called microspores which either germinate to become male gametophytes or have reduced male gametophytes packaged within them, and similarly larger spores called megaspores that germinate into female gametophytes, or which have female gametophytes packaged within them.

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  • heterospory — heterospory. См. гетероспория. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …   Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • heterospory — noun Date: 1898 the production of microspores and megaspores (as in seed plants) • heterosporous adjective …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • heterospory — Condition in vascular plants where the spores are of two different sizes, the smaller producing male prothalli, the larger female prothalli …   Dictionary of molecular biology

  • heterospory — /het euh ros peuh ree/, n. Bot. the production of both microspores and megaspores. [1895 1900; HETERO + SPORE + Y3] * * * …   Universalium

  • heterospory — het·er·o·spo·ry …   English syllables

  • heterospory — /hɛtəˈrɒspəri/ (say hetuh rospuhree) noun the production in plants of both microspores and megaspores. {hetero + spor(e) + y3} …  

  • heterospory — noun the development of both microspores and megaspores • Derivationally related forms: ↑heterosporous • Hypernyms: ↑monogenesis, ↑sporulation * * * ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷rōˌspōrē, ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈräspərē noun ( es) …   Useful english dictionary

  • гетероспория — heterospory гетероспория. Hаличие гетерогамет (макро и микроспор) у растений. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …   Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • heterosporous — adjective characterized by heterospory • Pertains to noun: ↑heterospory • Derivationally related forms: ↑heterospory …   Useful english dictionary

  • Alternation of generations — (also known as alternation of phases or metagenesis) is a term primarily used in describing the life cycle of plants (taken here to mean the Archaeplastida). A multicellular sporophyte, which is diploid with 2N paired chromosomes (i.e. N pairs),… …   Wikipedia

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