ArticleProtoplasma2011
Syncytia in plants: cell fusion in endosperm-placental syncytium formation in Utricularia (Lentibulariaceae).
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- Core Clock Protein Subcellular Dynamics Coordinate Local and Global Circadian Control in Syncytia.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Syncytia in Utricularia: Origin and Structure.Results and problems in cell differentiation · 2024Article
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- How Many Is Enough? - Challenges of Multinucleated Cell Division in Malaria Parasites.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021Review
- Syncytia in Fungi.Cells · 2020Review
- Unusual developmental morphology and anatomy of vegetative organs in Utricularia dichotoma-leaf, shoot and root dynamics.Protoplasma · 2020Article
- Delayed selfing ensures reproductive assurance in Utricularia praeterita and Utricularia babui in Western Ghats.Journal of plant research · 2018Article
- Serial block face SEM visualization of unusual plant nuclear tubular extensions in a carnivorous plant (Utricularia, Lentibulariaceae).Annals of botany · 2017Article
- Integument cell gelatinisation-the fate of the integumentary cells in Hieracium and Pilosella (Asteraceae).Protoplasma · 2017Article
- Rhinanthus serotinus (Schönheit) Oborny (Scrophulariaceae): immunohistochemical and ultrastructural studies of endosperm chalazal haustorium development.Protoplasma · 2013Article
- Organisation of the endosperm and endosperm-placenta syncytia in bladderworts (Utricularia, Lentibulariaceae) with emphasis on the microtubule arrangement.Protoplasma · 2013Article
- Actin cytoskeleton in the extra-ovular embryo sac of Utricularia nelumbifolia (Lentibulariaceae).Protoplasma · 2012Article
- The F-actin cytoskeleton in syncytia from non-clonal progenitor cells.Protoplasma · 2011Article
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Abstract
The syncytium formed by Utricularia is extremely unusual and perhaps unique among angiosperm syncytia. All typical plant syncytia (articulated laticifers, amoeboid tapetum, the nucellar plasmodium of river weeds) are formed only by fusion of sporophytic cells which possess the same genetic material, unlike Utricularia in which the syncytium possesses nuclei from two different sources: cells of maternal sporophytic nutritive tissue and endosperm haustorium (both maternal and paternal genetic material). How is this kind of syncytium formed and organized and is it similar to other plant syncytial structures? We used light and electron microscopy to reconstruct the step-by-step development of the Utricularia syncytia. The syncytia of Utricularia developed through heterotypic cell fusion involving the digestion of the cell wall, and finally, heterokaryotic multinucleate structures were formed, which possessed different-sized nuclei that were not regularly arranged in the cytoplasm. We showed that these syncytia were characterized by hypertrophy of nuclei, abundant endoplasmic reticulum and organelles, and the occurrence of wall ingrowths. All these characters testify to high activity and may confirm the nutritive and transport functions of the syncytium for the developing embryo. In Utricularia, the formation of the syncytium provides an economical way to redistribute cell components and release nutrients from the digested cell walls, which can now be used for the embryo, and finally to create a large surface for the exchange of nutrients between the placenta and endosperm.
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