Publication Year: 2008 / Subject: 5 selected

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Author:: Płachno, Bartosz J.; Świątek, Piotr
Source:: Protoplasma 2008 v.234 no.1-4 pp. 25-32
ISSN:: 0033-183X
Subject:: Utricularia; amyloplasts; carnivorous plants; cell walls; direct contact; electron microscopy; embryo sac; endoplasmic reticulum; females; flowers; gametophytes; histochemistry; light microscopy; lipids; meristems; microtubules; nutrition; phylogeny; plasmodesmata; researchers; starch granules; vacuoles
Abstract:: ... Beginning with light microscopy studies in the late 19th century, the placental “nutritive tissue” in carnivorous plants of Utricularia spp. has been well described by several authors. Based on observations of direct contact between the embryo sac and the “nutritive tissue” and the lack of vascularization of the ovule, it has been suggested that this nutritive tissue plays a key role in the nutrit ...
DOI:: 10.1007/s00709-008-0020-9
PubMed:: 18802663
: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00709-008-0020-9