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Homoplastic occurrence of perforated pit membranes and torus-bearing pit membranes in ancestral angiosperms as observed by field-emission scanning electron microscopy
| Title: | Homoplastic occurrence of perforated pit membranes and torus-bearing pit membranes in ancestral angiosperms as observed by field-emission scanning electron microscopy |
| Authors: | Sano, Yuzou Browse this author →KAKEN DB | | Utsumi, Yasuhiro Browse this author | | Nakada, Ryogo Browse this author |
| Keywords: | Pit membrane | | Interfiber pit | | Torus | | Wood fiber | | Angiosperm |
| Issue Date: | Apr-2013 |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Journal Title: | Journal of Wood Science |
| Volume: | 59 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page: | 95 |
| End Page: | 103 |
| Publisher DOI: | 10.1007/s10086-012-1304-4 |
| Abstract: | Recent studies demonstrated that perforated pit membranes (i.e., pit membranes with a large opening in their central portion) are commonly present between wood fibers in core eudicots. It is unclear whether this type of pit membranes might also occur in ancestral angiosperms. Therefore, structure of interfiber pit membranes was examined by field-emission scanning electron microscopy in nine species representing seven families that are located at more ancestral position than core eudicots. We found perforated pit membranes in three of the nine species. Our observations indicate that perforated pit membranes are relatively common even in ancestral groups of angiosperms. In the non-perforated pit membranes of the other six species, we found a range of structural variations. Thin-walled pit membranes without apparent intercellular layers were always found in three of the six species and the porosity of sheet-like pit membranes differed among the three species. Unlike the thin-walled pit membranes, interfiber pit membranes of Buxus microphylla var. japonica were thick-walled with obvious intercellular layers, and in Schisandra chinensis, we often observed torus-bearing pit membranes. Such variations in layered structure of pit membranes and homoplastic occurrence of torus-bearing pit membranes have not yet been reported for ancestral angiosperms. Our observations indicate that the structure of interfiber pit membranes might be more complicated than previous studies might suggest. |
| Rights: | The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com |
| Type: | article (author version) |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/52815 |
| Appears in Collections: | 農学院・農学研究院 (Graduate School of Agriculture / Faculty of Agriculture) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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Submitter: 佐野 雄三
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