Current Trends in the Embryology of Angiosperms

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Male Gametogenesis

   • Darlene Southworth, Scott Russell

   Pages 1-16

3. Sperm and Generative Cell

   • Darlene Southworth

   Pages 17-32

4. Pollen Germination and Pollen Tube Growth

   • A. Moscatelli, M. Cresti

   Pages 33-65

5. Female Gametogenesis

   • Scott D. Russell

   Pages 67-88

6. Embryo Sac

   • David D. Cass, John D. Laurie

   Pages 89-100

7. In Vivo Fertilization

   • Tatyana B. Batygina, Valentina E. Vasilyeva

   Pages 101-142

8. In Vitro Fertilization

   • E. Kranz

   Pages 143-166

9. Sexual Incompatibility

   • F. Cruz-Garcia, B. A. McClure

   Pages 167-196

10. Zygotic Embryogenesis

    • Romana Czapik, Romana Izmaiłow

    Pages 197-222

11. Zygotic Embryogenesis

    • C. Fischer-Iglesias, G. Neuhaus

    Pages 223-247

12. Zygotic Embryogenesis: Developmental Genetics

    • Kathrin Schrick, Thomas Laux

    Pages 249-277

13. Somatic Embryogenesis

    • Trevor A. Thorpe, Claudio Stasolla

    Pages 279-336

14. Synthetic Seeds of Asparagus Officinalis L.

    • Kanji Mamiya, Yuji Sakamoto, Noboru Onishi, Takayasu Hirosawa

    Pages 337-352

15. Endosperm Development

    • P. W. Becraft, R. C. Brown, B. E. Lemmon, O.-A. Olsen, H. G. Opsahl Ferstad

    Pages 353-374

16. Seed Maturation, Germination, and Dormancy

    • A. Bruce Downie

    Pages 375-417

17. Gametophytic Apomixis

    • Yves Savidan

    Pages 419-433

18. Parthenocarpy

    • Angelo Spena, Giuseppe Leonardo Rotino

    Pages 435-450

19. Androgenesis in Brassica

    • J. B. M. Custers, J. H. G. Cordewener, M. A. Fiers, B. T. H. Maassen, M. M. Van Lookeren Campagne, C. M. Liu

    Pages 451-470

20. Androgenesis in Cereals

    • Swapan K. Datta

    Pages 471-488

During the last two decades the modern techniques of histochemistry, electron microscopy, plant physiology, biochemistry, cell and molecular biology, immunology, and genetics have been applied to investigate the intricacies of the processes involved in embryo formation, and considerable new information has been generated. A better understanding of these processes has enhanced our capacity to manipulate fertilization and embryo development. This has changed the face of the embryology of angiosperms from a descriptive science to an experimental and applied science. The revolutionary progress made in this fascinating field of sexual reproduction was the motivation to prepare this volume. It includes 21 chapters written by experts who have made substantial contributions to their respective fields. It covers all aspects of the embryology of angiosperms, ranging from development, isolation, and structure of male and female gametes, their fusion in vivo and in vitro, and structure, physiology, and genetics of zygotic embryogenesis, to endosperm and seed development. Advances in somatic embryogenesis, synthetic seed technology and regeneration of haploid plants from male and female gametophytes are discussed. Other important topics covered in this volume are sexual incompatibility, parthenocarpy, and apomixis. The last chapter deals with the embryological perspective of inheritance of extra-nuclear genes. All the chapters contain up-to-date information and are profusely illustrated. Graduate and postgraduate students, teachers, and scientists of botany and other areas of plant sciences will find this book extremely useful.

• Embryo
• Mutation
• Plant physiology
• Regeneration
• Seed
• evolution
• physiology

`The book is highly recommendable to advanced students of Plant Biology wishing to learn the fundamentals of angiosperm embryology, and at the time addresses researchers entering the field or simply curious about the current state of our knowledge. Researchers actively engaged in plant embryology will find in-depth information and will certainly appreciate having this book on the shelf above their desks as it will soon become an indispensable companion in their daily work.'
Plant Science, 161 (2001)

• University of Delhi, Delhi, India

  Sant Saran Bhojwani

• Chonbruk National University, Chonju, Republic of Korea

  Woong-Young Soh

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