Abstract
SUMMARYThe localization of callose during meiotic and apomeiotic megasporogenesis in diploid species of the genus Medicago was investigated by fluorescence microscopy. Callose deposition and cytoembryological details were studied by treating flowers with a clearing/staining medium. Ovules were classified into different developmental stages and the distance of growing integuments from the micropyle measured. The relationship between the stage of development and the growth of integuments proved to be an effective method for correlating megasporogenesis events with callose deposition and assessing the cytological mechanism of apomeiosis. Within meiotic ovules callose deposition appeared as thin micropylar caps in the megaspore mother cells and as thick cell plates between dyad, triad and tetrad cells. The degradation of callose started at the beginning of embryo sac differentiation. Ovules with diplosporic cells were characterized by complete absence of callose. When callose was present at the megaspore moth...
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