The chinese wolfberry(Lycium chinense Miller) grows in eastern asia and is mainly used as a medicinal purpose for high blood-presure, diabetes liver complaint, and in some case as food. The present study investigates the formation of female and male g...
The chinese wolfberry(Lycium chinense Miller) grows in eastern asia and is mainly used as a medicinal purpose for high blood-presure, diabetes liver complaint, and in some case as food. The present study investigates the formation of female and male gametophyte of the chinese wolfberry. The results are summarized as follows;
1. The flower is hypogyny with 1 pistil and 5 stamens, and it's inflorescence is cymose.
2. In anther, the parietal tissue is dicotyledonous, and the epidermis and endothelium last for a long-time.
3. The microspore tetrad is tetrahedral type.
4. One vegeattive nucleus and two sperms are observed in matured pollen grains.
5. The connective remains evidently until anthesis.
6. The nucellus is tenuinucellate.
7. The integument is unitegumic and the ovule type is anatropous.
8. The megaspore tetrad is arranged linearly.
9. The mesaspore located near the chalazal and functions as the embryo sac rnother cell.
10. The egg apparatus is completed in two to three days before flowering.
11. The embryo sac belongs to the monosporic 8-nucleate polygonum type.