Optical and ultrastructural study of the pollen grain development in hermaphrodite papaya tree (Carica papaya L.)

The objective of this study was to describe the pollen grain development in hermaphrodite papaya tree. The flower buds were collected at different stages of the development and the anthers were treated chemically for observation under optical and electronic transmission microscopes. The pollen grain...

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Published in:	Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
Main Authors:	Lídia Márcia Silva Santos, Telma Nair Santana Pereira, Margarete Magalhães de Souza, Pedro Correa Damasceno Junior, Fabiane Rabelo da Costa, Beatriz Ferreira Ribeiro, Noil Gomes de Freitas, Messias Gonzaga Pereira
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná (Tecpar) 2008-06-01
Subjects:	Carica papaya microsporogenesis microgametogenesis pollen grain ultrastructure
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132008000300013