Education links
Intermediate level: |
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Overview: | |||
► Plant reproduction and dispersal – an interactive course (made by Prof. Dr. Michiel Willemse and Dr. André van Lammeren, Laboratory of Cell Biology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, 2019.) | |||
► Pollen Biology with separate webpages on life cycle, fertilization, pollen calendars, hay fever etc. | |||
► Seed Development and LCM - Movies from the Goldberg Lab | |||
► Angiosperms (Flowering Plant) Life Cycle - YouTube video | |||
► Reproduction of Gymnosperms - YouTube video | |||
► Flower Structure - YouTube video | |||
► How Ovule and Female Gametophyte Develop - YouTube video | |||
► Double Fertilization in Flowering Plants - YouTube video | |||
Detailed sites: | |||
► Flower Structure | |||
► Flower Morphology | |||
► Flower Structure | |||
► Pollen and Embryo Sac | |||
► Pollination Adaptations | |||
► Honeybee Biology | |||
► Fertilization and Fruits | |||
► Fruit Ripening | |||
► Fruit Growth and Fruit Types | |||
► Seeds and Fruits | |||
► The Seed Site | |||
► Seeds and Seed Germination | |||
Advanced level: |
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► Plant Reproduction Research in Europe - a special issue of Plant Reproduction. *Free* review papers on | |||
• meiosis, apomixis, microspore embryogenesis (all posted 26 Aug. 2013) | |||
► Germline specification in plant reproduction - a special issue of Sexual Plant Reproduction. Review papers on | |||
• evolution of reproductive development, polarity and embryo axis | |||
• cross-talk during germline development, male and female germ cell specification (all posted 23 May 2011) | |||
► Deciphering molecular mechanisms of fertilization in seed plants - a *free* special issue of Sexual Plant Reproduction. Review papers on | |||
• synergids, male gamete genetic repertoire, attraction of pollen tubes, fertilization mechanisms | |||
• polyspermy barriers, zygote and embryo activation (all posted 14 March 2008) | |||
► Pollen Biology - videos, images and protocols | |||
► Sexual Reproduction in Lily (Lilium) - pollen, embryo sac development and fertilization | |||
► Live-Cell Imaging of Double Fertilization in Arabidopsis - videos from the Higashiyama lab | |||
► Confocal Microscopy of Double Fertilization in Lily (Lilium) - stereorotation of sectioned material | |||
► Pollen tube growth in Arabidopsis - videos, images, protocols from the Palanivelu lab | |||
► Central cell fertilization and endosperm development in vitro - test tube endosperm | |||
► Three classical papers on double fertilization - historical literature from ~100 years ago | |||