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Megaspores are structures that are part of the alternation of generations in many seedless vascular cryptogams, all gymnosperms and all angiosperms. Plants with heterosporous life cycles using microspores and megaspores arose independently in several plant groups during the Devonian period. [ 2 ]
Microspores: Produced sexually through meiosis, and give rise to a male gametophyte: Pollen in seed plants In plants, microspores, and in some cases megaspores, are formed from all four products of meiosis. Megaspores (macrospores) Produced sexually through meiosis, and give rise to a female gametophyte: Ovule in seed plants
Spores of two distinct sizes (heterospory or anisospory): larger megaspores and smaller microspores. When the two kinds of spore are produced in different kinds of sporangia, these are called megasporangia and microsporangia. A megaspore often (but not always) develops at the expense of the other three cells resulting from meiosis, which abort.
Megaspores, also called macrospores, are a type of spore that is present in heterosporous plants. These plants have two spore types, megaspores and microspores . Generally speaking, the megaspore, or large spore, germinates into a female gametophyte , which produces egg cells .
Microgametogenesis is the process in plant reproduction where a microgametophyte develops in a pollen grain to the three-celled stage of its development. In flowering plants it occurs with a microspore mother cell inside the anther of the plant.
In these anisogamous species, the two sexes are referred to as male (producing sperm or microspores) and female (producing ova or megaspores). [9] In isogamous species , the gametes are similar or identical in form ( isogametes ), but may have separable properties and then may be given other different names (see isogamy ). [ 10 ]
Lycopods and sphenopsids got a fair way down the path to the seed habit without ever crossing the threshold. Fossil lycopod megaspores reaching 1 cm in diameter, and surrounded by vegetative tissue, are known (Lepidocarpon, Achlamydocarpon);– these even germinated into a megagametophyte in situ. However, they fell short of being ovules, since ...
Microspores produce microgametophytes which produce sperm. Megaspores produce reduced megagametophytes inside the spore wall. At maturity, the megaspore cracks open at the trilete suture to allow the male gametes to access the egg cells in the archegonia inside.