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Unusual microtubular cytoskeleton of apomictic embryo sac of Chondrilla juncea L.

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The mature apomictic embryo sac of Chondrilla juncea is highly vacuolated and demonstrates a polarization similar to that of the amphimictic gametophyte. The microtubule cytoskeleton of this embryo sac is uncharacteristic and relatively weak. The microtubules are positioned along cell walls and resemble cortical microtubules of somatic cells. They do not form the parallel, brushlike structures observed around the filiform apparatus of synergids in the amphimictic embryo sac. In the apomictic embryo sac, the microtubules of both the egg cell and the central cell develop a cortical-like structure, which is entirely different from the radial arrangement observed around the nuclei in the amphimictic embryo sac.

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  1. Department of Plant Cytology and Embryology, Jagiellonian University, Cracow

    M. Kościńska-Pająk

  2. Department of Plant Anatomy and Cytology, Maria-Curie Skłodowska University, Lublin

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Correspondence and reprints: Department of Plant Cytology and Embryology, Jagiellonian University, Grodzka 52, 31-044 Kraków, Poland.

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Kościńska-Pająk, M., Bednara, J. Unusual microtubular cytoskeleton of apomictic embryo sac of Chondrilla juncea L.. Protoplasma 227, 87–93 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00709-006-0147-5

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