Preferential fertilization in Plumbago: Ultrastructural evidence for gamete-level recognition in an angiosperm
AUTOR(ES)
Russell, Scott D.
RESUMO
Gametic fusion patterns in the angiosperm Plumbago zeylanica were determined by using cytoplasmically dimorphic sperm cells differing in mitochondrion and plastid content and then identifying paternal organelles through their ultrastructural characteristics within the maternal cytoplasm at the time of fertilization. The virtual absence of plastids within the sperm cell that is physically associated with the vegetative nucleus allows paternal plastids to be used to trace the fate of the two male gametes after fusion. Such paternal plastids were present in the egg in >94% of the observed cases, indicating the preferential fusion of the plastid-rich, mitochondrion-poor sperm cell with the egg. In only one instance did the opposite pattern occur. Since the possibility of this result occurring as the consequence of chance in random fusions is <1 in 7000, this represents strong evidence for the presence of a final putative recognition event occurring at the gametic level.
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