The sporocyte cytoplasm is quadripartitioned and distributed equally (with very few exceptions) to the spores/microspores of the tetrad.
It is produced by the cytoplasm at the cell surface within the sporocyte wall, but its synthesis and intricately patterned deposition remains little understood.
Sporocyte samples from each plant were taken at the appropriate stage of meiosis for cytological examination and fixed in Carnoys's solution (6 ethanol:3 chloroform:1 acetic acid).
32j) that clearly delimit the dyad domains in the otherwise undivided sporocyte.
This is the "lobed sporocyte" group of Schuster (1984) minus Monoclea, Blasia, and the Haplomitriopsida.
The early prophase sporocyte is polarized; one hemisphere contains the acentric nucleus while two sausage shaped plastids are positioned in the other (Figs.
75c) and the cytoplasm lobes around the plastid poles with substantial deposition of sporocyte wall material at the boundaries of the opposing microtubule arrays.
On locating the snail, the miracidium penetrates it and undergoes asexual reproduction to produce multicellular
sporocytes which develop to cercarial larvae having embryonic suckers as well as a two-branched tail.
Smith, "Cytogenetics of a factor for multiploid
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Nuclear vacuoles in the
sporocytes of five species of musci.
However, the occurrence of 21II in a majority of the sporocytes will indicate that both MAALs carry the same chromosome.
Most sporocytes showed a 20II + 1I chromosome configuration.