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SUBMITTER: Ashapkin VV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6627097 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ashapkin Vasily V VV Kutueva Lyudmila I LI Aleksandrushkina Nadezhda I NI Vanyushin Boris F BF
International journal of molecular sciences 20190622 12
Unlike in animals, the reproductive lineage cells in plants differentiate from within somatic tissues late in development to produce a specific haploid generation of the life cycle-male and female gametophytes. In flowering plants, the male gametophyte develops within the anthers and the female gametophyte-within the ovule. Both gametophytes consist of only a few cells. There are two major stages of gametophyte development-meiotic and post-meiotic. In the first stage, sporocyte mother cells diff ...[more]