ReviewAnnals of botany2011
Angiosperm ovules: diversity, development, evolution.
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- Topological analysis of 3D digital ovules identifies cellular patterns associated with ovule shape diversity.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2024Article
- A deep learning-based toolkit for 3D nuclei segmentation and quantitative analysis in cellular and tissue context.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2024Article
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- The Effect of Different Temperatures on the Viability and Senescence of Plum Ovules (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Megasporogenesis, megagametogenesis and embryogenesis of Liparis elliptica (Orchidaceae), with special note to the development of unique unitegmal ovule.Protoplasma · 2024Article
- Identification of allelic relationship and translocation region among chromosomal translocation lines that leads to less-seed watermelon.Horticulture research · 2024Article
- How Seeds Attract and Protect: Seed Coat Development ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Arabidopsis TCP4 transcription factor inhibits high temperature-induced homeotic conversion of ovules.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Transcriptome analysis of ovules offers early developmental clues after fertilization in3 Biotech · 2023Article
- The Ovule Number Variation Provides New Insights into Taxa Delimitation in Willows (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Transcription factors KNAT3 and KNAT4 are essential for integument and ovule formation in Arabidopsis.Plant physiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundOvules as developmental precursors of seeds are organs of central importance in angiosperm flowers and can be traced back in evolution to the earliest seed plants. Angiosperm ovules are diverse in their position in the ovary, nucellus thickness, number and thickness of integuments, degree and direction of curvature, and histological differentiations. There is a large body of literature on this diversity, and various views on its evolution have been proposed over the course of time. Most recently evo-devo studies have been concentrated on molecular developmental genetics in ovules of model plants. SCOPE: The present review provides a synthetic treatment of several aspects of the sporophytic part of ovule diversity, development and evolution, based on extensive research on the vast original literature and on experience from my own comparative studies in a broad range of angiosperm clades.
conclusionsIn angiosperms the presence of an outer integument appears to be instrumental for ovule curvature, as indicated from studies on ovule diversity through the major clades of angiosperms, molecular developmental genetics in model species, abnormal ovules in a broad range of angiosperms, and comparison with gymnosperms with curved ovules. Lobation of integuments is not an atavism indicating evolution from telomes, but simply a morphogenetic constraint from the necessity of closure of the micropyle. Ovule shape is partly dependent on locule architecture, which is especially indicated by the occurrence of orthotropous ovules. Some ovule features are even more conservative than earlier assumed and thus of special interest in angiosperm macrosystematics.
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