Lesson 3: Plant Cytology

and Life Cycle

Part 2

Prepared by: Prof. EZVitug

The Cell wall
Plant cells placed in hypertonic solution
Primary and secondary cell walls in stone cells of
pear (Pyrus)
Circular bordered pits of pine
tracheids seen in face view

Bordered pits of pine tracheids

seen in cross sectional view
 Vestured pits
 Protuberances from SCW of pit chamber
 Incidence from tropics to tundra
 Minimize vulnerability to embolism (cavitation)

Vestured pit in
Flabellaria
paniculata
Electron micrographs of plasmodesmata
Intercellular spaces
Parenchyma, with and without
intercellular spaces
Lysigenous and schizogenous cavity
formation

lysigenous schizogenous

Citrus oil
glands
The Cell Cycle
Mitosis in plants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp0wGTQMD4M
Cell division: Cell Cycle and Mitosis
Alternation of generation

Bryophyte
life cycle
Alternation of generation: Fern life cycle
Life cycle of a gymnosperm
Angiosperm life cycle