Synchrony of Female Gametophyte Development in Wild-Type Arabidopsis
| Number of Female Gametophytes at Developmental Stages | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pistil Number | FG1 | FG2 | FG3 | FG4 | FG5 | FG6 | FG7 | FG8 | Total FGs |
| SL1 | 31 | 31 | |||||||
| SL2 | 5 | 21 | 26 | ||||||
| SL3 | 1 | 10 | 15 | 26 | |||||
| SL4 | 4 | 2 | 25 | 31 | |||||
| SL5 | 6 | 24 | 30 | ||||||
| SL6 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 16 | |||||
| SL7 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 14 | 29 | ||||
| SL8 | 1 | 0 | 31 | 32 | |||||
Siliques were fixed in 2.5% glutaraldehyde and analyzed with an LSM 510META laser scanning microscope according to Christensen et al. (1997). FG stages were defined according to Christensen et al. (1998).