Morphological and ultrastructural diversity of orbicules in Gentianaceae

Annals of Botany

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 657-672

  Vinckier, Stefan ^a   Smets, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Gentianaceae; Morphology; Orbicules; Pollen; SEM; Systematics; Tapetum; TEM; Typology; Ubisch bodies; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TAXONOMY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; CELL GRANULE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENTIAN; GENTIANACEAE; IMAGE PROCESSING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWERTIA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; GENTIANA; GENTIANACEAE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWERTIA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

GENTIANACEAE; LOGANIACEAE; RUBIACEAE;

EID: 15044354183     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcg187     Document Type: Article

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