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Sporophyte is a noun used in botany to refer to the asexual and usually diploid phase producing spores in the life cycle of plants
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- A plant (or the diploid phase in its life cycle) which produces spores by meiosis in order to produce gametophytes.
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The sporophyte grows up from the archegonium.
Embryo then differentiates into a new sporophyte.
The sporophyte can produce haploid spores by meiosis.
The zygote undergoes mitosis to form a sporophyte.
It is in the diploid sporophyte that vascular tissue develops.
It takes about a quarter to half a year for the sporophyte to mature.
The sporophyte is diploid but its spores are haploid.
The thallus is a sporophyte.
The sporophyte is harvested as seaweed.
The fertilized egg when develop into the sporophyte by mitosis.
Dominant sporophyte sporophytic.
In the mosses and hornworts a cuticle is usually only produced on the sporophyte.
The sporophyte consists of a regularly shaped sporangium on a long stalk or seta.
Once the archegonia is fertilized the sporophyte generation begins to form.
The sporophyte develops a long stalk ending in an elongated spore capsule.
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Within the seeds are an embryo sporophyte that grows into a mature sporophyte.
The sporophyte produces spores by meiosis which in turn develop into gametophytes.
Addition of anions also had a detrimental effect on fertilization or production of sporophyte plants.
They are sporophyte dominant.
The zygote divides by mitotic division and grows into a sporophyte that is diploid.
A single sporophyte can produce tens of millions of spores per year.
The kelp life cycle involves a diploid sporophyte and haploid gametophyte stage.
The sporophyte shows the most complex structural organization in the tracheophytes.
The dominant stage is the diploid sporophyte generation that produces spores by meiosis.
The sporophyte generation is the diploid stage in the life cycle of a rose plant.
Hornworts alternate between a gametophyte phase and a sporophyte phase in their life cycle.
Summer droughts affected sporophyte maturation negatively by drying out sporophytes prematurely.
Have marked characteristic uniform gametophyte and a wide diversity in the architecture of the sporophyte.
A seedling is a young plant sporophyte developing out of a plant embryo from a seed.
Its name refers to its four large peristome teeth found on the sporophyte capsule.
The sporophyte exists independently of the gametophyte and typically exhibits indeterminate growth.
Fertilisation follows and the zygote develops directly into the diploid sporophyte plant.
The blades of the new sporophyte grow from one or two initial blades by splitting.
The life cycle of land plants involves alternation of generations between a sporophyte and a haploid gametophyte.
The relationship between the sporophyte and gametophyte varies among different groups of plants.
The fusion of male and female gametes produces a diploid zygote which develops into a new sporophyte.
The sporophyte generation is named that because it is the generation that produces the spores.
The differentiation of microspores and megaspores and their dependence upon the sporophyte has certain advantages.
The sporophyte remains small and dependent on the parent gametophyte for its entire brief life.
Unlike the bryophytes, the sporophyte generation is dominant.
The sporophyte of Riccia is the simplest amongst bryophytes.
They then combine to form another seed, which produces another sporophyte.
Cleistocarpous sporophyte of the moss Physcomitrella patens.
Like the flower of an angiosperm, for instance, is itself actually the sporophyte.
A sporophyte of Dicksonia antarctica.
In general, all plants except liverworts have stomata in their sporophyte stage.
The sporophyte is differentiated into a foot, seta and capsule.
After fertilisation, the immature sporophyte pushes its way out of the archegonial venter.
The sporophyte stage is the spore-forming event of the lifecycle.
Laminaria exhibits alternation of generations, the sporophyte generation alternating with the gametophyte generation.
