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Plant Reproduction and Development: A Detailed Overview

Explore plant sexual reproduction, gametophyte development, double fertilization, seed and fruit development, and seed germination process.

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Plant Reproduction and Development: A Detailed Overview

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  1. Chapter 38 • Plant Reproduction and Development

  2. Sexual Reproduction • Alternation of generations: haploid (n) and diploid (2n) generations take turns producing each other • Sporophyte (2n): produces haploid spores by meiosis; these spores divide by mitosis giving rise to male and female haploid plants called…. • Gametophytes (n): develop and produce gametes

  3. Floral variations • Floral organs: sepals, petals, stamens (male ), carpels (female) • •complete: all 4 floral organs • •incomplete: lacking 1 or more floral organs • •perfect: both stamens and carpels on 1 flower • •imperfect: lacking either a stamen or carpel • •monoecious: staminate and carpellate flowers on 1 plant) • •dioecious: staminate and carpellate flowers on separate plants

  4. Gametophyte development • Male gametophyte: microsporocyte (in pollen sacs of anther) divides by meiosis into 4-1N microspores; mitosis produces a generative cell (sperm) and a tube cell (pollen tube)= a pollen grain • Female gametophyte: megasporocyte (in ovule) divides by meiosis to 4 cells, only 1 survives to a 1-N megaspore; 3 mitotic divisions forms the embryo sac; includes: 1 egg cell (female gamete) and 2 polar nuclei (synergids)

  5. Double fertilization • Pollination (pollen grain lands on a receptive stigma) • Tube cell (pollen tube produced down the style) • Generative cell (2 sperm by mitosis) • Enters ovary through micropyle • 1 sperm fertilizes egg to form zygote; other sperm combines with 2 polar nuclei to form 3n endosperm (food-storing tissue)

  6. Plant fertilization • http://youtube.com/watch?v=AWXb6z1eD0o

  7. The seed • From fertilized ovule….. • The mature seed: • •seed coat (protection) • •cotyledons (seed leaves) • •hypocotyl (lower embryonic axis) • •radicle (embryonic root) • •epicotyl (upper embryonic axis) • •plummule (shoot tip) • •coleoptile (sheath for embryonic shoot)

  8. Seed development • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZAMLejNj-4&feature=PlayList&p=00F901E6FF1C8B21&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=26

  9. The fruit • From ovary…. • Fruit protects seeds and aids in their dispersal • Pericarp (thickened wall of fruit from ovary wall) • Fruit types: • •simple (1 ovary/1 flower)~ cherry, soybean • •aggregate (1 flower with many carpels/ovaries)~ blackberry • •multiple (inflorescence; group of flowers/ovaries) ~ pineapple

  10. Fruit development • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwCpQflmQG4

  11. Seed germination • Seed dormancy (low metabolic rate and growth suspension) • Imbibition (uptake of water) • Radicle 1st, then shoot tip (hypocotyl); stimulated by light • Germination

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