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F-actin distribution during male meiosis in Magnolia soulangeana was studied by means of fluorescence microscopy following staining with rhodaminephalloidin. Actin filaments were observed to persist during all of the developmental stages of meiosis. Four main types of configurations were recognized: (1) peripheral filaments underlying the plasma membrane (cortical network); (2) filaments dispersed throughout the inner cytoplasm (central cytoplasmic network); (3) filaments associated with the meiotic spindles; (4) filaments associated with the phragmoplasts. The cortical and central cytoplasmic filaments exhibited different behaviours. Whereas the cortical network remained present in an apparently unchanged form during all of the meiotic stages, the central cytoplasmic filaments, although they never completely disappeared, were reduced and concentrated around the nucleus at the end of prophase. At metaphase, fluorescent spindles consisting of filament bundles running from pole to pole or being interrupted at the equatorial zone could be seen. At the end of both the first and second division of meiosis, fluorescent bands of filaments (disks) appeared at the level of the cell division planes (equatorial regions) where cleavage furrows were constituted. These cleavage furrows did not form when floral buds were “cultivated” in a cytochalasin-containing medium. Our results show that during microsporogenesis in M. soulangeana the actin filaments constitute a highly complex and dynamic system that is involved in particular in cytoplasm cleavage of the meiocytes.
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Dinis, A.M., Mesquita, J.F. The F-actin distribution during microsporogenesis in Magnolia soulangeana Soul. (Magnoliaceae). Sexual Plant Reprod 6, 57–63 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00227584
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