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Gymnosperms
Spring 2010
Outline
• Review of land plant phylogeny
• Characters of seed plants
• Gymnosperm phylogeny & diversity– Gnetophytes– Cycads– Gingko– Conifers
Review of land plant phylogeny
Green plants (viridophytes)
Land plants (embryophytes)
Vascular plants (tracheophytes)
Seed plants (spermatophytes)
Gymnosperms
Angiosperms
Figure 7.8 from the text
Figure 7.11 (Pt. 1) from the text
Figure 7.12 from the text
“Gymnosperms”Spermatophytes (Seed Plants)
and MORE!
Seed Ferns[FOSSIL]
seed: MANY CHARACTERS! – e.g., heterospory; reduction/retention of megaspore; integument/micropyle; nutritive tissue
vessel structure
axillary branching
vascular cambium [secondary xylem (wood) & secondary phloem) & cork cambium (cork)
male gametophyte: pollen grain & pollen tube
eustele
AngiospermsFlowering Plants
striate pollen
nonmotile sperm
double fertilization
nonmotile sperm
loss of lateral branches
Characters of seed plants
• Eustele• Axillary branching• Wood
– Cambia (vascular cambium, cork cambium)
• Seed– Heterospory– Megaspore reduction/retention– Integument/micropyle– Nutritive tissue
• Male gametophyte– Pollen grain– Pollen tube
eustele = primary stem vasculature comprising a single ring of vascular bundles
Characters of seed plants: Eustele
Characters of seed plants: axillary branching
cambia: vascular cambium (wood) & cork cambium (periderm)
Characters of seed plants: cambia
X-section of woody stem
Characters of seed plants: seed
• Heterospory
• Megaspore reduction/retention
• Integument/micropyle
• Nutritive tissue
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Gametes[egg + sperm]
Zygote
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Spores
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alternation of generations
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Life cycle of most seed-free plants
embryocells in
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Life cycle of seed plants•heterospory
Megaspore reduction:-reduction to 1 megaspore
Evolution of the seed
Megaspore retention:-the one megaspore is retained within megasporangium, not released
Evolution of the seed
Evolution of the seedEvolution of integument/micropyle fromsterile sporophyte tissue
•pollination droplet: -secreted by young ovule through micropyle -water + sugars, amino acids (megasporangium) -adhering pollen grains pulled inside!
Evolution of the seed
-nutritive tissue from the female gametophyte-integument becomes the seed coat
Evolution of the seed
Figure 7.11 (Pt. 2) from the text
male gametophyte•pollen grain = extremely reduced male gametophyte, a few cells•pollen tube – formed by the pollen, grows though sporophytic tissue to deliver sperm cells to egg (in ovule)
Characters of seed plants
Adaptive advantages of the seed:
Characters of seed plants: seed
•protection (seed coat)•dispersal unit of sexual reproduction•dormancy mechanisms•nutritive tissue – provides energy for young seedling, aiding in establishment
Two major groups of seed plants:
• Gymnosperms—not sure of the early evolutionary history of gymnosperms; could be monophyletic or could be paraphyletic
• Angiosperms—monophyly supported by many characters including the carpel
Gymnosperm Phylogeny
4 monophyletic lineages of gymnosperms
Gymnospermsmonophyletic
Gymnospermsparaphyletic
Gymnospermsparaphyletic
Gymnospermsmonophyletic
Figure 7.15 from the text
Gymnosperm diversity
-ca. 15 families, 75-80 genera, ca. 900 species-4 monophyletic lineages-all woody-mostly without effective vegetative reproduction-only tracheids in the xylem (except for gnetophytes, which also have vessels)-naked seeds-relatively slow sexual reproduction-worldwide but dominant in many colder or arctic regions-include the tallest, the most massive, and the longest living individual plants
Major groups of gymnosperms
• Gnetophytes
• Cycads
• Gingko
• Conifers
Gnetophyta—Gnetophytes or Gnetales 3 extant genera: Ephedra (65 spp.); Gnetum (28 spp.); Welwitschia mirabilis
related to angiosperms?•recent molecular data: a gymnosperm group
defined by many characters, e.g.:-opposite leaves, similar pollen-vessel structure (independent of angiosperms)-nonmotile sperm (independent?)-double fertilization (independent of angiosperms)-some with insect pollination
Major groups of gymnosperms
Gnetophyta - Gnetophytes
•Ephedra (65 spp.)-common desert shrub-reduced scale-like
leaves
Major groups of gymnosperms
Gnetophyta – Gnetales
•Gnetum (28 spp.)•tropical vines, trees, shrubs with opposite leaves that look like angiosperms!
Major groups of gymnosperms
Gnetales – Gnetophytes
•Welwitschia mirabilis-a strange plant native to deserts of Namibia,
sw Africa! -2 big curly leaves!
Major groups of gymnosperms
Cycadophyta – Cycads•squat, unbranched trunk (little wood), usually pinnately compound leaves•loss of axillary branching•dioecious: male and female plants•male and female strobili (cones)•motile, multiflagellate sperm! (ancestral)•coralloid roots with nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria
Major groups of gymnosperms
Cycadophyta – Cycads
•ca. 11 genera (130 spp.)•now restricted distribution•seeds with bright fleshy seed coat--dispersed by plant-eating dinos!
Major groups of gymnosperms
A native U.S. cycad:Zamia floridana
Ginkgophytes – Ginkgo
extensive fossil record but…only1 living species: Ginkgo biloba!
•highly branched tree withwell developed wood
•deciduous, fan-shaped leaves with dichotomous venation•dioecious: male and female trees
-male: “cone” with lateral stalks bearing microsporangia-female: no cone, axis with 2 ovules
(outer integument layer fleshy)•motile sperm (ancestral)
Major groups of gymnosperms
Coniferophyta – Conifers•ca. 600 spp.•once dominant worldwide, displaced by angios•shrubs or small trees, highly branched with
well developed wood•leaves simple, often needle-like or awl-shaped
-pines: in fascicles•non-motile sperm (pollen tube needed)•female (seed-bearing) cones in most
Major groups of gymnosperms
Coniferophyta – Conifers
•pollen cone or male cone-microsporangia & modified leaves
•seed cone or female cone-axis with modified leaves (bracts, usually reduced), each subtending seed-bearing scale (modified branch system)-woody or leathery or fleshy
Major groups of gymnosperms
female
Coniferophyta – Conifers•seed cone and pine nuts
Major groups of gymnosperms
Korean pine nutsStone Pine nuts[w U.S.]
Conifers
Figure 8.23 from the text
Pinaceae
Leaves linear to needle-like
Ovules 2, invertedWinged seeds
Pollen usually with 2 appendages
Resin canals inwood & leaves
Abies (fir)
Pseudotsuga (Douglas fir)
Larix (larch)Picea (spruce)
Pinus(pines)
-needles in bundles-cone scales thickened atthe tip and often armed with a prickle
Cupressaceae
Leaves scale-like to linearPollen without appendages
Microsporangia 2-10 per microsporophyll &ovules 1-20 per cone scale
Cone scales fused to bracts
Juniperus (juniper)
Chamaecyparis
Taxodium (bald cypress)
Sequoia sempervirens (redwood) Sequoiadendron giganteum(giant sequoia)
Taxaceae
Seeds with a fleshy, brightly colored aril
Ovules solitary,cones lacking
Podocarpus
Araucariaceae