PPT Seedless Vascular Plants Chapter 17 PowerPoint Presentation ID
What Is Heterospory. The smaller one is known as microspore and the larger one is known as megaspore. Examples of heterospory plants are selaginella, salvinia, and marsilea, etc.
PPT Seedless Vascular Plants Chapter 17 PowerPoint Presentation ID
These spores differ in size. The smaller one is known as microspore and the larger one is known as megaspore. Web heterospory is a phenomenon in which two kinds of spores are borne by the same plant. Web heterospory is a type of spore formation in plants that occurs when the plant’s sporophyte produces two different kinds of spores. The clubmosses , the ferns including the arborescent. Petersen & burd, 2016 ). These spores differ in size. The megaspores are the bigger spores that produce a female gametophyte and the microspores are the smaller ones that produce a male gametophyte. Web heterospory induces a drastic reduction in the sizes of their gametophytes. In heterosporous forms the differentiation of sex can be predicted at the spore stages.
It is defined as the production of two spores that are different in size in the same plant. Web heterospory is a phenomenon in which two kinds of spores are borne by the same plant. Petersen & burd, 2016 ). Web heterospory, defined as the production of smaller male microspores and larger female megaspores, arose independently in all major vascular plant lineages (lycophytes, monilophytes and spermatophytes) and is considered a key innovation for terrestrial colonization (bateman & dimichele, 1994; There is an extreme reduction in the male gametophyte and, in most cases, it is nothing but an antheridium. Examples of heterospory plants are selaginella, salvinia, and marsilea, etc. The larger spore is called a megaspore which leads to forming a female gametophyte. The microspore germinates to form the male gametophyte and the megaspore germinates to form the female gametophyte. The female gametophyte never outgrows the limits of the megaspore. Microspores and megaspores in a single plant. The clubmosses , the ferns including the arborescent.