- A
gonimoblast is a type of cell
produced by red
algae upon the
fertilization of a
zygotic nucleus, and
involved in the
formation of carpospores. The cells...
- It can be
recognised by its
reproductive features,
particularly the
gonimoblast that
follows fertilization and the
absence of
sterile cells in mature...
- wavy margin. The
initiation of the
gonimoblast filament starts from the
ventral side of the carpogonium.
Gonimoblast filaments creep along the cortical...
-
fusing with the
hypogynous cell, then
producing a
diffuse or
discrete gonimoblast lacking a
pericarp (ovary wall). Tetrasporophytes,
where known, are microscopic...
-
carpogonium is club-shaped.
Carposporophytes are
roughly spherical,
formed by
gonimoblasts, with
carposporangia at the tips (lacking cystocarp). In Batrachospermum...
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diameter and are only
partially filled by a
small internal spore m****.
Gonimoblast tissue is thin-walled.
Tubular nutritive cells and
lateral and vertical...
- are more oblong, and the
carposporangia themselves have
superficial gonimoblast filaments. When
viewed under a
scanning electron microscope, the outlines...
- Moreover, on the
basis of
certain features of ****tangial initiation,
gonimoblast development, and the
pattern of concavo-convex
divisions of
apical and...
-
asymmetrical carpogonium in the
gametophyte and indeterminate/indistinct
gonimoblast filament in the carposporophyte.
Further recognition of
species inside...
-
carpogonial branch.
Carposporophyte with a
basal fusion cell, much
branched gonimoblast, and
clavate to
ovoid terminal carposporangia.
Cystocarps dome-shaped...
