Claim · model-written summary
Root tip cells had forty somatic chromosomes.
- Taxon
- Cucurbita maxima
Cucurbita maximat0 - Organ / stage
- root tip celle0
- Outcome
- somatic chromosomese0
- Value
- forty somatic chromosomese0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Counts in root tip cell showed forty somatic chromosomes”
t0“Cucurbita maxima”
Title
Microsporogensis in Cucurbita maxima
Edward F. Castetter UNI ScholarWorks (University of Northern Iowa) 1925
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- Observation Pollen mother cells form from one longitudinal row of primary sporogenous cells per anther lobe.
- Observation A perinuclear zone forms in early diakinesis.
- Observation Fibers from the perinuclear zone and nuclear interior form the multipolar spindle.
- Observation Twenty bivalent chromosomes occur at heterotypic division.
- Observation A callose wall forms around the mother cell during diakinesis.
- Observation A special callose wall forms inside the original wall after heterotypic division.
- Observation Centripetally growing partition walls divide the mother cell into four.