Pollen

Pollen: Development and Physiology focuses on pollen physiology, with emphasis on the living pollen grains, their growth, and essential biological functions. Topics covered in this book include the role of nucleus and cytoplasm in microsporogenesis; the development of the pollen grain wall; the metabolism of pollen tubes; pistil-pollen interactions; and incompatibility.
This monograph is comprised of 35 chapters divided into five sections. The first section explores the physiology and biochemistry of meiosis in the anther; changes in the cytoplasm and its organelles during microsporogenesis; and changes in cytoplasmic RNA and enzyme activity during the meiotic prophase in Cosmos bipinnatus. The next section is devoted to pollen development and the pollen grain wall and includes chapters that look at the role of the tapetum during microsporogenesis of angiosperms; dictyosome development during microsporogenesis in Canna generalis; and pollen grain and sperm cell ultrastructure in Beta. The remaining sections discuss the metabolism of pollen and pollen tubes; the interactions between pollen and pistil; and pollen size and incompatibility in Nicotiana.
This text will be a valuable resource for plant physiologists.

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Section One Nucleus and Cytoplasm in Microsporogenesis
Reviews
Physiology and Biochemistry of Meiosis in the Anther
The Cytoplasm and Its Organelles during Meiosis
Abstracts
Cytoplasmic RNA and Enzyme Activity during the Meiotic Prophase in Cosmos bipinnatus
Histones, RNA and Protein Synthesis in Pollen Cells of Paeonia
Section Two Pollen Development and the Pollen Grain Wall
Review
The Role of the Tapetum during Microsporogenesis of Angiosperms
Abstracts
Dictyosome Development during Microsporogenesis in Canna generalis
Pollen Grain and Sperm Cell Ultra-structure in Beta
Histochemistry and Ultrastructure of Pollen Development in Podocarpus macrophyllus
Reviews
The Pollen Wall: Structure and Development
Recent Developments in the Chemistry, Biochemistry, Geochemistry and Post-tetrad Ontogeny of Sporopollenins Derived from Pollen and Spore Exines
Abstracts
Incorporation of Radioactive Precursors into Developing Pollen Walls
Surface Membrane Specialisations and the Pollen Wall
A Function of the Sporocyte Special Wall
The Tapetal Membranes in Grasses and Ubisch Body Control of Mature Exine Pattern
Section Three Pollen and Pollen Tube Metabolism
Reviews
Pollen Chemistry and Tube Growth
Pollen Enzymes and Isoenzymes
Abstracts
Pollen Wall Enzymes: Taxonomic Distribution and Physical Localization
Pollen Protein Diffusates
Review
Pollen Tube Growth and Fine Structure
Abstracts
Effects of Steroids on Pollen GerminationZ
Metabolism of Germinating Lily Pollen: Pollen Enzymes
The Significance of a Wall-bound, Hydroxyprolinecontaining Glycopeptide in Lily Pollen Tube Elongation
Review
RNA and Protein Synthesis during Pollen Development and Tube Growth
Abstracts
Ribosome Synthesis Compared during Pollen and Pollen Tube Development
Lack of Transfer RNA Synthesis in the Pollen Tube of Tradescantiapaludosa
In Vitro Synthesis of Proteins by Polysomes from Germinating PetuniaFollen
The Production of Haploid Embryos from Pollen Grains
Section Four Pistil-pollen Interactions
Review
Pistil-Pollen Interactions in Lilium
Abstracts
Can Ca++ Ions Act as a Chemotropic Factor in Oenothera Fertilization
The Nature of the Stigmatic Exudate and Its Role in Pollen Germination
Effect of Stigmatic Exudate Injected into the Stylar Canal on
Compatible and Incompatible Pollen Tube Growth in Lilium Longiflorum Thunb.
Use of Pistil Exudate for Pollen Tube Wall Biosynthesis in Lilium Longiflorum
Section Five Incompatibility
Review
Advances in the Study of Incompatibility
Abstracts
Incompatibility in Trifolium pratense L
Genetic and Environmental Variation of Pseudo-Self-Compatibility
Pollen Size and Incompatibility in Nicotiana
Index