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Secretory structures in vegetative and reproductive organs of species of Anacardiaceae: anatomy, histochemistry and ultrastructure

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Author(s):
Ana Paula Stechhahn Lacchia
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: Campinas, SP.
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Biologia
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Examining board members:
Sandra Maria Carmello Guerreiro; Angelo Luiz Cortelazzo; Beatriz Appezzato da Glória; Jane Elizabeth Kraus; Silvia Rodrigues Machado
Advisor: Lia Ascensão; Sandra Maria Carmello Guerreiro; Marilia de Moraes Castro
Abstract

Anacardiaceae is comprised of 70 genera with approximately 600 species of pantropical distribution, mainly, with few species from temperate regions. The most used infrafamilial classification, proposed by Engler (1892), divides this family in five tribes: Anacardieae, Rhoeae, Semecarpeae, Spondiadeae, and Dobineeae. In the present work, there were studied a species from Anacardieae tribe (Anacardium humile St.Hil), a species from Rhoeae tribe (Lithraea molleoides (Vell.) Engl., and two species from Spondiadeae tribe (Spondias dulcis G.Forst and Tapirira guianensis Aubl.). The secretory structures of the vegetative and reproductive organs of these species were characterized anatomically and histochemically, and the secretory canals present in them were ultrastructurally characterized. The canals present uniseriate epithelium; the ones associated to the phloem are resiniferous (lato sensu) and the medullar ones of A. humile and S. dulcis are mucilaginous. The presence of canals that produce chemically distinct secretions in the same organ of a species is being described for the first time. In A. humile, L. molleoides, and T. guianensis, the canals are associated to the phloem of petal, sepal, receptacles, and ovarian mesophyll; only in the pistil-like structure of the male flowers of L. molleoides and T. guianensis, there are found some canaIs. The canals are also found in the fruit and peduncle of A. humile and in the fruit of T. guianensis. The canaIs have uniseriate epithelium; the floral canaIs of A. humile, L. molleoides, and T. guianensis are resiniferous (lato sensu), the ones from fruit and peduncle of A. humile are resiniferous (stricto sensu), and the ones from the fruit of T. guianensis are resiniferous (lato sensu). In the same species, the secretory canaIs present in different organs may produce distinct substances...Note: The complete abstract is available with the full electronic digital thesis or dissertations (AU)

FAPESP's process: 03/13556-5 - Secretory structure in vegetative and reproductive organs of species of Anacardiaceae in the Cerrado of the State of São Paulo: anatomy, histochemistry and ultrastructure
Grantee:Ana Paula Stechhahn Lacchia
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate (Direct)