Gonimoblast

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

^ 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. S2CID 85787751.
^ 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.

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[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. S2CID 85787751.

[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.

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