Correlates of nuclear DNA content in angiosperms have been noted previously for a range of features, cellular to geographic. A new hypothesis, the correlation between nuclear DNA content and reproductive developmental features (after Cavalier-Smith, Journal of Cell Science 34, 247-268. 1978) is posed and tested here. Of three features tested (megasporogenesis, microsporogenesis, and endosperm development), megasporogenesis alone was shown to be correlated with nuclear DNA amount. The hypothesis was examined in 107 families of angiosperms using nonparametric statistics, and in 53 families of monocotyledons and outgroups using a phylogenetic test of association. A correlation was found between large genomes and successive microsporogenesis for all angiosperms, but not for monocots and dicots analyzed separately, thus underlining the importance of taking into account phylogenetic relationships in such studies. A correlation between cellular endosperm and large genomes in dicotyledons needs to be confirmed in a phylogenetic context. A tendency for deviations from monosporic megasporogenesis to occur in taxa that have a nuclear DNA content of over 9.0 pg/C was demonstrated using both phylogenetic and nonphylogenetic tests. It is hypothesized that cytoskeleton dynamics are affected in reproductive cells, enabling decoupling between nuclear and cytoplasmic cell cycles and leading to variation in reproductive development.
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American journal of botany
卷
83
期
4
页码
440
- 451
ISSN
0002-9122
出版者
Elsevier Ltd
其它主题
Megasporogenesis; Cytoskeleton; Microsporogenesis; Nuclei
语言
英语
注释
2019-12-05
类型
Text; Journal Article
2024-02-29
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