Micropyle


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micropyle

[′mī·krə‚pīl]
(botany)
A minute opening in the integument at the tip of an ovule through which the pollen tube commonly enters; persists in the seed as an opening or a scar between the hilum and point of radicle.

Micropyle

 

(1) An opening in the membrane of the eggs of insects, arachnids, some mollusks, fishes, and a number of other animals, through which the spermatozoon penetrates. (2) An opening in the apex of the ovule in higher seed plants, through which the pollen tube penetrates during pollination. The micropyle is formed because the integuments surrounding the ovule are unattached.

Micropyle

 

the canal in the integument or integuments of a plant through which the ovule is penetrated in gymnosperms by pollen grains and in angiosperms by pollen tubes. The external opening of the micropyle may be observed on the surface of a mature seed in the form of a dark dot.

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Yanagimachi R (1957) Some properties of the sperm-activating factor in the micropyle area of the herring egg.
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Through division of the cells in the micropylar end of the nucellus, a cell proliferation is developed that extends beyond the micropyle (Figure 6A).
Morphology and anatomy of the developing fruit and seed of Dalechampia stipulacea Mull. Arg. (Euphorbiaceae)/Morfologia e anatomia do fruto e semente em desenvolvimento de Dalechampia stipulacea Mull. Arg. (Euphorbiaceae)
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For these reasons, only grasshoppers with mature oocytes, those with a visible micropyle on the chorion, were used to determine fecundity.
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A pollen tube begins to grow from a pore in the pollen and a tube nucleus and two sperm nuclei travel along the tube as it grows until it reaches the micropyle, the opening into the ovule cavity.
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