Abstract
When seedlings grow into young plants their tissue proportions change over time. Viviparous mangrove seedlings of the Rhizophoraceae are different from other young trees. They consist of a thickened cylinder-shaped hypocotyl that allows the seedlings to float and disperse before establishment. Despite the crucial role in the ecological and biogeographical success of mangroves, not much has been published about the internal development of mangrove seedlings in their early life stages. We used X-ray CT-scanning and light microscopy to investigate the internal development (i) over time and (ii) with hypocotyl height in seedlings of the mangrove species Bruguiera gymnorrhiza and Ceriops tagal . While light microscopy offered cell- and tissue identification in destructive transverse sections, X-ray CT-scanning allowed investigating the internal tissue development of living plants over time in a non-destructive way. Our results indicated that the vascular tissue proportionally increased over time and with hypocotyl height in both species in accordance with the growing importance of this tissue in the developing seedlings. As a result, the cortex, composed of an inner and outer zone, proportionally decreased over time and with height in both species. No clear trends over time and with height could be observed regarding the proportion of the pith tissue. A decrease in average density of all tissues together with height was discerned in both species indicating the seedlings were heavier at their base. The latter suggests a supporting role of the seedling base in tidal and wind action. The combination of CT-scanning and light microscopy offered the advantages of both methods in the developmental study of young mangrove plants, and opens perspectives in the study of internal development of young plants in general.
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
Vascular tissue proportion increased over time and with hypocotyl height in both mangrove species.
- Taxon
- Bruguiera gymnorrhiza and Ceriops tagal
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Ceriops tagale0 - Organ / stage
- vascular tissuee1
- Outcome
- vascular tissuee1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Qualifier
- over time and with hypocotyl heighte1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“We used X-ray CT-scanning and light microscopy to investigate the internal development (i) over time and (ii) with hypocotyl height in seedlings of the mangrove species Bruguiera gymnorrhiza and Ceriops tagal”
e1“Our results indicated that the vascular tissue proportionally increased over time and with hypocotyl height in both species”
Claim · model-written summary
Cortex proportion decreased over time and with height in both mangrove species.
- Taxon
- Bruguiera gymnorrhiza and Ceriops tagalBruguiera gymnorhizaCeriops tagale0
- Organ / stage
- cortexe2
- Outcome
- cortexe2
- Direction
- decreasede2
- Qualifier
- over time and with heighte2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“We used X-ray CT-scanning and light microscopy to investigate the internal development (i) over time and (ii) with hypocotyl height in seedlings of the mangrove species Bruguiera gymnorrhiza and Ceriops tagal”
e2“As a result, the cortex, composed of an inner and outer zone, proportionally decreased over time and with height in both species”
Claim · model-written summary
No clear trend over time or with height was observed in the proportion of pith tissue in both mangrove species.
- Taxon
- Bruguiera gymnorrhiza and Ceriops tagalBruguiera gymnorhizaCeriops tagale0
- Organ / stage
- pith tissuee3
- Outcome
- proportion of the pith tissuee3
- Direction
- No clear trendse3
- Qualifier
- over time and with heighte3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“We used X-ray CT-scanning and light microscopy to investigate the internal development (i) over time and (ii) with hypocotyl height in seedlings of the mangrove species Bruguiera gymnorrhiza and Ceriops tagal”
e3“No clear trends over time and with height could be observed regarding the proportion of the pith tissue”
Claim · model-written summary
Average density of all tissues decreased with height in both mangrove species.
- Taxon
- Bruguiera gymnorrhiza and Ceriops tagalBruguiera gymnorhizaCeriops tagale0
- Organ / stage
- all tissuese4
- Outcome
- average density of all tissuese4
- Direction
- decreasee4
- Qualifier
- together with heighte4
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“We used X-ray CT-scanning and light microscopy to investigate the internal development (i) over time and (ii) with hypocotyl height in seedlings of the mangrove species Bruguiera gymnorrhiza and Ceriops tagal”
e4“A decrease in average density of all tissues together with height was discerned in both species”
Claim · model-written summary
X-ray CT-scanning allowed non-destructive investigation of internal tissue development of living seedlings over time, where light microscopy needs destructive sections.
- Taxon
- Bruguiera gymnorrhiza and Ceriops tagalBruguiera gymnorhizaCeriops tagale0
- Outcome
- investigating the internal tissue development of living plants over timee5
- Comparator
- light microscopye5
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“We used X-ray CT-scanning and light microscopy to investigate the internal development (i) over time and (ii) with hypocotyl height in seedlings of the mangrove species Bruguiera gymnorrhiza and Ceriops tagal”
e5“While light microscopy offered cell- and tissue identification in destructive transverse sections, X-ray CT-scanning allowed investigating the internal tissue development of living plants over time in a non-destructive way”