Developmental and ultrastructural characters of the pollen grains and tapetum in species of nymphaea subgenus hydrocallis

• Autores: Zini, Lucía Melisa; Galati, Beatriz Gloria; Zarlavsky, Gabriela Elena; Ferrucci, María Silvia
• Año de publicación: 2017
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Fuente: Protoplasma, 2017, vol. 254, no. 5, p. 1777-1790.
• Materia: Exine; Membranous granular layer; Orbicules; Pollen; Tapetum type
• Institución: Universidad Nacional del Nordeste

Fil: Zini, Lucía Melisa. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnica. Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste; Argentina.
Fil: Zini, Lucía Melisa. Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias; Argentina.
Fil: Galati, Beatriz Gloria. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente; Argentina.
Fil: Zarlavsky, Gabriela Elena. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente; Argentina.
Fil: Ferrucci, María Silvia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnica. Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste; Argentina.
Fil: Ferrucci, María Silvia. Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias; Argentina.
Variations in pollen characters and tapetum behavior were recently acknowledged in the early-divergent family Nymphaeaceae and even within the genus Nymphaea, which probably is not monophyletic; some traits such as infratectum and tapetum type are also a matter of different interpretations. In this study, developmental characters of the pollen grains and tapetum in Nymphaea subgenus Hydrocallis are provided for the first time. Observations were made in N. amazonum, N. gardneriana, and N. prolifera using light, scanning, and transmission electron microscopy. Tapetum is of the secretory type and produces orbicules. At microspore and pollen grain stages, the distal and proximal walls differ considerably. This result supports the operculate condition of the aperture in Hydrocallis, and such aperture might be plesiomorphic for Nymphaeoideae. The infratectum is intermediate, composed of inter-columellae granular elements, robust columellae consisting of agglomerated granules, complete columellae, and fused columellae. Narrow microchannels are present and persist until the mature pollen grain stage. The membranous granular layer is often present in the pollen grains of Nymphaeaceae. In N. gardneriana, this layer is most probably a component of the intine because it is lost after acetolysis Orbicules in the Nymphaeaceae are characterized as spherical or subspherical, with a smooth sporopolleninic wall that surrounds an electron-lucent core and with individual orbicules that usually merge to give irregular aggregations. The aperture, pollen wall ultrastructure, and the tapetum of the studied species are discussed in an evolutionary and systematic context, and these characters are also compared with those of other angiosperm lineages.