Photosynthetica 1997, 33(11):147-149 | DOI: 10.1023/A:1006881700082

Relationship between fern development and CAM in Pyrrosia piloselloides (L.) Price

B.-L. ONG1, C.K.-K. KOH1, Y.-C. WEE1
1 Department of Botany, The National University of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Pyrrosia piloselloides (L.) Price is a constitutive CAM plant in the sporophytic phase of its life-cycle. Newly developed sporophytes, still attached to the gametophytes, showed signs of CAM expression in terms of diurnal changes in titratable acidity of the tissues. The gametophytes did not exhibit CAM.

Additional key words: Crassulacean acid metabolism; gametophytes; sporophytes

Prepublished online: January 1, 1998; Published: January 1, 1997  Show citation

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ONG, B.-L., KOH, C.K.-K., & WEE, Y.-C. (1997). Relationship between fern development and CAM in Pyrrosia piloselloides (L.) Price. Photosynthetica, 34(1), 147-149. doi: 10.1023/A:1006881700082
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