Dictionary definition: gametophyte

Article: Female Gametophyte Development
Plant Cell;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... acquired a life cycle that alternates ... organism, the gametophyte, and a multicellular ... and male gametophytes. The female ... develop into gametophytes. The major function of gametophyte generation ... completing the life cycle (Gifford ... angiosperm life ...

Article: Gametophyte
Plant Sciences;      496 words ... ... vascular plants the gametophyte is short-lived and ... Among land plants, gametophytes are of four different ... smallest and least complex gametophytes are those of the flowering plants. The male gametophyte is the two- or three ... The Origin of the Life Cycle of Land Plants ...

Article: Analysis of the Female Gametophyte Transcriptome of ...
Plant Physiology;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... identified as female gametophyte genes, likely a lower ... transcripts restricted to the gametophyte. Validation of six ... function. The plant life cycle alternates between ... In angiosperms, gametophyte development takes place ... carpel), and male gametophytes by cDNA, oligonucleotide ...

Article: NUCLEAR FUSION DEFECTIVE1 Encodes the Arabidopsis RPL21M Protein ...
Plant Physiology;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... the angiosperm life cycle. Two of these ... into the female gametophyte. One sperm fertilizes ... during Female Gametophyte Development During the angiosperm life cycle, karyogamy occurs ... during female gametophyte development when ...

Encyclopedia entry: gametophyte
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      458 words ... ... lower plants, the gametophyte phase is the dominant ... familiar mosses are the gametophyte form of the plants ... phase of the plant life cycle is the sporophyte ... out of the top of the gametophyte. The sporophyte develops ... spores that develop into gametophytes. The alternation ...

Article: Integrating Membrane Transport with Male Gametophyte ...
Plant Physiology;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... the physiology of the male gametophyte is an attractive model to ... proper development of the male gametophyte. To begin integrating transport ... that are used by the male gametophyte. The complete Arabidopsis ... integration with the plant life cycle remain unknown. The availability ...

Article: Genetic subtraction profiling identifies genes essential for ...
Genome Biology (Online Edition);  October 3, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Background The life cycle of plants alternates ... male and female gametophytes) generations. The multicellular gametophytes represent the haploid phase of the life cycle between meiosis ... known as the female gametophyte or megagametophyte ...