Sexual Reproduction In Flowering Plants Flashcards
Accessory whorls
Calyx and Corolla
Essential
Androecium and gynoecium
Father of plant embryology
CF Wolf
Father of Indian embryology
P Maheswari
Embryo formed by meiosis and fertilization
Amphimixis
Middle layer is made up of
Parenchymatous cell
Pollen kit is made of
Lipids and carotenoids
In endothelium callose is absent at some places called
Stomium
Hay fever
Pollens of ambrosi
Smallest pollen grain
Myosotis
Largest pollen grain
Mirabilis
Longest pollen grain
Zostera
Largest egg,ovule and male gamete is present in
Cycas
Radius of pollen grain
25-50microm
Fascinating array of patterns and designs
Exine
Intine characters
Thin and continues, made up of cellulose and pectin
Vegetative cell
Large and irregular nucleus , food reserve
Generative cell
Small and spindle shaped, dense cytoplasm
2 celled stage
60%
Pollen allergy
Parthenium or carrot gras
Longest pollen tube
Sea mays
Liquid nitrogen -196C
Cryopreservation
Pollen viability in cereals
30 mins
Pollen viability in rosaceae, leguminaceace, solanaceae
Months
Ovarian cavity
Locule
1 ovule
Wheat, paddy , mango
Many ovary
Papaya, watermelon , orchids
Erect ovule
Orthotropous
Inverted ovule
Anatropous and common
Both ovule and embryo sac are curved
Amphitropous
Ovule curved and embryo sac straight
Campylotropous
Right angled ovule
Hemitropous
360 ovule
Circinotropous
Papaver
Multicarpellary and syncarpous
Multicarpellary and apocarpous
Michelia
Embryo sac
7 celled 8 uncleated
Both cleistogamous and chasmogamous
Viola ( common pansy), commelina, oxalis
Water pollinated fresh water
Vallisneria and hydrilla
Water pollination marine water
Zostera ( ribbon shaped pollen), mucilaginous covering, both submerged
Water hyacinth and water Lily pollination
Insect or wind
Bird pollinator
Sun bird and humming bird
Reptile pollinators
Geka and garden lizard
Fly and beetle
Foul odour
Tallest flower
Amorphophallus ( 6 feet)
Moth and yucca
Pollination symbiosis
Monoecious plant
Castor, maize, pea, pinus, maize, chara, coconut, cucurbits
Dioceous
Papaya, date plan, mustard, cycas, marchantia
Stages of embryo
Zygote - pro embryo- globular embryo- heart embryo - mature
Grass family cotyledon
Scutellum
Non albuminous
Pea, bean, groundnut
Ex albuminous
Castor, coconut, wheat, maize, barley
Remnant nucellus
Perisperm, beet and black pepper
Dormancy, seed becomes relatively dry by
10 to 15%
False fruit
Strawberry, cashew, apple
Parthenocarpic
Banana
Oldest seed (10,000yrs)
Lupine articus
Oldest seed (2000yrs)
Phoenix dactyliferous, king herods
Large no of seeds
Orchid, (orobranche, strings) - parasitic plants , ficus
Apomixis
Asteraceae, grasses, ( citrus and mango)
Corn cob - tassels
Stigma and style
Water pollination
30 genera and monocotyledons
Animal pollination
Zoophily
Snail pollination
Malacophily
Man pollination
Anthropophily
Bat pollination
Chiropterophily
Ant pollination
Myrmicophily
Snake pollination
Ophiophily
Insect pollination
Entamophily