- Sporeling
A sporeling is a young plant or fungus produced by a germinated spore , similar to a seedling derived from a germinated seed . They occur in alga e, fungus fungi , lichen s, bryophyte s and Pteridophyte seedless vascular plant s. Sporeling development Most spores germinate by first producing a germ rhizoid or holdfast followed by a germ tube emerging from the opposite end. The germ tube develops into the hypha , protonema or thallus tissue thallus of the gametophyte . In seedless vascular plants such as fern s and lycopodiophyta , the term sporeling refers to the young sporophyte growing on the gametophyte. These sporelings develop via an embryo stage from a fertilized egg inside an archegonium and depend on the gametophyte for their early stages of growth before becoming independent sporophytes. Young fern sporelings can often be found with the prothallus gametophyte still attached at the base of their frond s. External links British Pteridological Society http www.nhm.ac.uk hosted sites bps wof wof.htm An introduction to ferns contains a picture of a sporeling fern attached to the prothallus botany stub Category Plant morphology Category Plant reproduction Category Fungal morphology and anatomy ... more details
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- Tempskya
growth pattern of Tempskya has been suggested at the sporeling stage, Tempskya would consist of a single ... more details
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- Sporogenesis
into multicellular haploid individuals or sporeling s. In heterosporous organisms, two types of spores ... more details
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- Germination
to the emergence of cells from resting spore s and the growth of sporeling hypha e or Thallus thalli ... more details
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- Spore
will germinate and develop into a sporeling , while a gamete needs to combine with another gamete ... more details
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- Marchantiophyta
. Spore Germination, Protonemata Development and Sporeling Development , page 347 in Rudolf M ... Development and Sporeling Development , pages 358 374 in Rudolf M. Schuster Ed. , New Manual ... more details
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- Seed
or young plant. Seeds usually give a seedling a faster start than a sporeling from a spore, because ... more details
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