Abstract
ABSTRACTThe fine structure of released, attached, and germinating carpospores ofPorphyra variegata(Kjellm.) Hus is described. Adhesive vesicles, formed during sporogenesis and discharged upon settling of the spore, produced a layer of adhesive mucilage around the spore and filled a deep imagination on the spore's ventral side. The mucilage layer was punctured by the emergence of a germ tube. Both spore and germ tube were lined by newly deposited cell wall. Germination was accompanied by vacuolation and starch mobilization. The morphological development of the sporeling was not noticeably influenced by the great variability of the timing, location, and orientation of septum formation. The attached carpospore possessed a plastid like that of gametophyte cells: stellate with one large central pyrenoid and no peripheral encircling thylakoids. Cells of mature vegetative cells of the conchocelis had plastids that were elongate and parietal and had multiple pyrenoids and encircling thylakoids. Most stages in the transition between the two forms of plastids occurred during carpospore germination.
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