Claim · model-written summary
All three stresses produced type 3 partial sterility after some microspores lost tapetal orientation following first mitosis.
- Taxon
- Wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Organ / stage
- microsporese0
- Outcome
- partial sterilitye0
- Qualifier
- all three stressese0
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Verbatim
e0“Type 3 was observed in response to all three stresses and led to partial sterility. The microspores completed PGM 1 but a proportion became disoriented from the tapetum and developed no further.”
t0“Development Anatomy in Wheat of Male Sterility Induced by Heat Stress, Water Deficit or Abscisic Acid”
Title
HS Saini; M Sedgley; D Aspinall Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 1984. doi:10.1071/pp9840243
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Heat stress caused wheat male sterility.
- Intervention effect Water stress caused wheat male sterility.
- Intervention effect Exogenous ABA caused wheat male sterility.
- Observation Heat stress and ABA produced type 1 anther failure through premature tapetal degeneration and locule invasion, causing total sterility.
- Observation Water stress produced type 2 total sterility when microspores lost tapetal contact and the filament degenerated.
- Observation Each stress produced both fully sterile and partly sterile abnormal anther locules.
- Observation Heat and ABA caused similar abnormal development but different proportions of types 1 and 3.
- Observation The findings do not support ABA as the sole primary controller of water stress induced sterility.