Why does some pollen lack apertures? A review of inaperturate pollen in eudicots

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-48

  Furness, Carol A ^a  

^a JODRELL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aperture function; Cryptoaperturate; Evolution; Exine; Functional dioecy; Pollen development; Primexine; Systematics; Tetrads

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; MONOCOTYLEDON; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLLEN; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; TAXONOMY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

APOCYNACEAE; ASCLEPIADOIDEAE; CORE EUDICOTYLEDONS; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIACEAE; LILIOPSIDA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; SECAMONOIDEAE;

EID: 34548575046     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2007.00694.x     Document Type: Article

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