Term Information

Accession
PO:0006015
Name
female archesporial cell
Ontology
plant_anatomy
Synonyms
célula femenina arquesporial (Spanish, exact), female archesporial initial (exact), 雌胞原細胞 (Japanese, exact), ovule archesporial cell (narrow)
Alternate IDs
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Definition
An archesporial cell (PO:0030056) that is part of a megasporangium (PO:0025201) and divides to give rise to a megasporocyte (PO:0000431). Source: POC:curators, PMID:10465788
Comment
Found in heterosporous ferns and seed plants. May also give rise to sterile cells. In the majority of flowering plants, including Arabidopsis, the female archesporial cell elongates and polarizes longitudinally, and directly differentiates into the megasporocyte or megaspore mother cell. In some flowering plants, it undergoes a periclinal division, and subsequently the inner cell differentiates into the megasporocyte.
Subset
CL
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Parents of female archesporial cell (PO:0006015)
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female archesporial cell [is_a relation] is_a  archesporial cell (PO:0030056)
female archesporial cell [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  megasporangium (PO:0025201)

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