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A typical anther contains four microsporangia. The microsporangia form sacs or pockets (locules) in the anther (anther sacs or pollen sacs). The two separate locules on each side of an anther may fuse into a single locule. Each microsporangium is lined with a nutritive tissue layer called the tapetum and initially contains diploid pollen mother ...
An anther and its filament together form a typical (or filantherous) stamen, part of the male floral organ. The typical anther is bilocular, i.e. it consists of two thecae. Each theca contains two microsporangia, also known as pollen sacs. The microsporangia produce the microspores, which for seed plants are known as pollen grains.
Stamens consist typically of an anther, made up of four pollen sacs arranged in two thecae, connected to a filament, or stalk. [2] The anther contains microsporocytes which become pollen, the male gametophyte, after undergoing meiosis. Although they exhibit the widest variation among floral organs, the androecium is usually confined just to one ...
Each anther contains four pollen sacs, which contain the microsporocytes. After meiosis, each microspore undergoes mitotic cell division, giving rise to multicellular pollen grains (six nuclei in gymnosperms, three nuclei in flowering plants).
In angiosperms, a very young anther (the part of the stamen that contains the pollen) consists of actively dividing meristematic cells surrounded by a layer of epidermis. It then becomes two-lobed. Each anther lobe develops two pollen sacs, so each anther has four pollen sacs.
anther The pollen-bearing part of a stamen. antheridium in bryophytes, a specialized gametophytic organ that produces the male gametes. antheridiophore In liverworts of the order Marchantiales, a male gametophore, a specialized, stalked structure that bears the antheridia. antherode A sterile anther of a staminode. anthesis 1.
If the anther is cut perpendicular to its axis, it is observed that each anther contains one or two pollen sacs extending along its entire length. [18] [14] After the maturation of the pollen grains, dehiscence or opening of the anther occurs to let the pollen out. The tissue responsible is called endothecium.
In the anther, after a microspore undergoes microsporogenesis, it can deviate towards embryogenesis and become star-like microspores. The microspore can then go one of four ways: Become an embryogenic microspore, undergo callogenesis to organogenesis (haploid/double haploid plant), become a pollen-like structure or die.