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Lecture notes on Seeded plants (gymnosperms and angiosperms)

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Lecture 1: Gymnosperms

Spermatophyta (seed plants) can be divided into 2 groups

Gymnosperms - cone-bearing plants with unenclosed ovules (naked seeds)
Angiosperms - flowering plants with seeds enclosed in carpels (vessel seeds)
For both of them, the gametophytes are microscopic

Why have seed plants become dominant through evolution?
Embryo and food supply (endosperm) is surrounded by a protective coat, protecting it from UV
radiation and damage. This creates a greater chance that the seed will successfully be transferred
further.

Seeds can also retain viability for centuries - cereal and wheat - 200 year old seed
Lifecycle modifications in seed bearing plants
 Heterospory (ensures cross fertilisation)
 Gametophyte reduction and protection (protected within sporophytic plant)
 Retention of female gametophyte on sporophyte
 Pollination (gives independence from free water)
 Seed habit: embryo, endosperm and testa
Evolution towards gametophyte reduction

Gymnosperms have a pollen cone (which produces pollen) and the ovulate cone (which produces
the ovules)
Angiosperms have ovules

What are the advantages of gametophyte miniaturisation?
Gametophytes develop within sporophytes
 Moist environment prevents desiccation
 Protection from UV
 Nutrients supplied by sporophyte

Seed plants are heterosporous. Seedless plants have one kind of spore which gives rise to a bisexual
gametophyte.
Megasporangia form megaspores - female gametophytes
Microsporangia form microspores - male

Closest relative of seed plants are homosporous suggesting that heterospory evolved from
homosporous ancestors

Production of eggs by seed plants

Protecting the egg is critical for the plants reproduction.

, 8 nuclei and 7 cells.
Integuments are sporophyte tissue that envelopes the megasporangium
Gymno - 1 integument
Angio - 2

Formation of microsporangium

Seedless plants use diff mechanism to seeded ones
Mosses and fern produce flagellated sperm, requires an aqueous env-- vulnerable to drought

In seed plants, the microspore develops into a pollen grain.
Seed plants:
 Non flagellated sperm
 Use wind/animals to move
 Travel vast distances
 Survive for long periods

Seedless plants:
 Flagellated sperms
 Require aqueous env
 Travel a few cm
 Sensitive to desiccation
Ginko and cycads retain flagellated sperms but most gymnosperms are non flagellated.

Advantages of seeds over spores
Spores:
 Survive is local env isn't favourable
 Single cell so susceptible
 No nutrient supply
Seeds
 Survive for long periods
 Multicellular with protective coat
 Nutrient supply

Evolution of gymnosperms - late Devonian period - some plants acquired characteristics of seed
bearing plants (Archaeopteris)
They were heterosporous, wood forming, fern like leaves, up to 30m tall but no seeds.
Therefore these were referred to a progymnosperm - transitional species (interesting from an
evolutionary perspective)

Seed plant evolution

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