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The Female Gametophyte

  • Willemse M
  • van Went J
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, (1984), 159-196
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-69302-1_4
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Abstract

The female gametophyte develops from the megaspore formed in the nucellar tissue of the ovule. The megaspore enlarges and after some mitotic divisions a small coenocyte differentiates. In general, a megagametophyte consists, after cytokinesis, of an egg apparatus, a central cell, and antipodal cells.

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Willemse, M. T. M., & van Went, J. L. (1984). The Female Gametophyte. In Embryology of Angiosperms (pp. 159–196). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69302-1_4

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