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Annals of Botany 91: 927-937, 2003
© 2003 Annals of Botany Company

Comparative Developmental Anatomy of the Root in Three Species of Cladopus (Podostemaceae)

SATOSHI KOI1 and MASAHIRO KATO1

1 Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

* For correspondence. Fax 81-3-5841-4047, E-mail ss27185{at}mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Received: 29 November 2002; Returned for revision: 24 January 2003; Accepted 24 February 2003

Root meristem structure and root branching in three species of Cladopus were investigated from developmental and anatomical perspectives. Cladopus fukiensis has a compressed bell-shaped meristem at the apex of a compressed subcylindrical root, while C. javanicus and perhaps C. nymanii, with a ribbon-like root, have a half lozenge-shaped ( as seen from above) meristem composed of an apical meristem of cubic cells and a marginal meristem of rectangular cells. The dorsiventrality of the meristem results in root dorsiventrality, and a marginal meristem contributes to the broadening of the root. Comparisons of meristem structure and root morphology suggest that the ribbon-like root of, e.g. C. javanicus, evolved towards the foliose root of Hydrobryum, sister to the genus Cladopus, by loss of an indeterminate apical meristem. The lateral root of C. javanicus initiates within the meristem of a parent root. The dorsal dermal layer and inner cells of the lateral-root meristem appear endogenously under the dermal layer of the parent root, while the ventral layer is derived exogenously from a ventral dermal layer continuous with the parent-root meristem. This mosaic pattern of exogenous and endogenous root formation differs from the truly exogenous formation seen in Hydrobryum and Zeylanidium. The dorsiventral mosaic origin of the root meristem may account for root cap asymmetry.

Key words: Cladopus, evolution, meristem, morphology, root branching, root cap, Podostemaceae.


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