Biology:Gonimoblast

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Short description: Type of cell produced by red algae upon the fertilization of a zygotic nucleus
Liagora magniinvolucra Fig. 9. shows an early stage in gonimoblast development showing the already extensive development of the involucre

A gonimoblast is a type of cell produced by red algae upon the fertilization of a zygotic nucleus, and involved in the formation of carpospores. The cells subsequently divide and ultimately serve as storage or generative cells. Storage cells contain starch and are multinucleate; whereas generative cells are situated further from the auxiliary cell, are uninucleate, and form the terminal lobes in the ensuing carpospores.[1] Gonimoblasts are connected by septal pores, usually blocked by septal plugs.[2]

References

  1. Kugrens, P.; Delivopoulos, S. G. (1986). "Ultrastructure of the Carposporophyte and Carposporogenesis in the Parasitic Red Alga Plocamiocolax pulvinata Setch, (Gigartinales, Plocamiaceae)". Journal of Phycology 22 (1): 8. doi:10.1111/j.1529-8817.1986.tb02509.x. 
  2. Delivopoulos, S. (2003). "Ultrastructure of auxiliary and gonimoblast cells during carposporophyte development in the red alga Cryptopleura ruprechtiana (Delesseriaceae, Ceramiales, Rhodophyta)". Biology of the Cell 95 (6): 383–392. doi:10.1016/S0248-4900(03)00085-6. PMID 14519555.