| 单词 | pollen tube | |||
| 释义 | pollen tubepollen tubepollen tubepol′len tube`n. pollen tube
Pollen Tubepollen tube[′päl·ən ‚tüb]Pollen Tubea tubular outgrowth of a pollen grain that forms in seed plants after pollination. In its early development, it consists of a protuberance of the protoplast of the pollen grain. Covered with an internal membrane (intine), the tube emerges through a slender area of the pollen grain’s external membrane. In gymnospermous plants the pollen tube is formed in the pollen sac of the ovule; here it is embedded in the tissue of the nucellus. The pollen tube serves only as a haustorium (sucker) that receives nutrient matter (for example, in Cycadophyta and Ginkgo), or it ensures conduction of the male gametes to the female prothallium—the primary endosperm (in conifers and Gneticae). In angiosperms the pollen grains form pollen tubes on the stigma of the pistil singly (in most plants) or in groups (in Malvaceae and Cucurbitaceae). The pollen tube, growing at its apex, emerges between the papillae of the stigma and then grows into the style and along the cells that line the stylar canal. If there is no canal, the tube grows between the cells of the stylar tissue, destroying the intercellular matter and, sometimes, the cells. The pollen tube penetrates the ovule through the micropyle (porogamy) or, less frequently, through the chalaza (chalazogamy; in many Amentaceae) or laterally through the integument (mesogamy). In the female gametophyte—the embryo sac—the pollen tube usually enters between the egg cell and the synergid, or, upon destroying one of the synergids, it opens and releases the spermatozoids, after which double fertilization is possible. A. N. SLADKOV pollen tube pollen tubea slender structure produced from a POLLEN GRAIN after POLLINATION. The tube protrudes from a pore in the EXINE and grows down through the stigma, style and ovary of the CARPEL, entering the ovule usually by the micropyle. See Fig. 255 . Within the tube, the haploid generative nucleus divides by MITOSIS to give two MALE GAMETE NUCLEI which have an important function in the double FERTILIZATION process of higher plants (see EMBRYO SAC). The growth of the tube appears to be controlled by the tube nucleus and there is some evidence that the tube shows negative AEROTROPISM. The stimulus for the original germination of the pollen grain comes from a sugary fluid secreted by the stigma. Sometimes, however, germination is prevented by SELF-INCOMPATIBILITY factors in the stigma cells and pollen grain, which prevent self-pollination in some plants.pollen tube
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pollen tube - (botany) a slender tubular outgrowth from a pollen grain when deposited on the stigma for a flower; it penetrates the style and conveys the male gametes to the ovule