Patterns of amyloplast distribution during microsporogenesis in Tradescantia, Impatiens and Larix
During the meiotic prophase I in <em>Tradescantia</em> and <em>Impatiens</em> microsporocyte becomes temporarily asymmetric, with excentrically situated nucleus and all amyloplasts gathered in a dense group close to the nuclear envelope.. Further microsporogenesis in <em>Impatiens</em> differs in amyloplast distribution from that in <em>Tradescantia</em> and <em>Larix</em>. In Impatiens at the telophase I amyloplasts are assembled in a dense equatorial plate. At the late telophase II this plate reshapes and separates a meiocyte into four areas (a tetrad) until cell plates are formed in simultaneous cytokinesis. Similar assemblages of amyloplasts do not occur in telophase meiocytes of <em>Tradescantia</em> and <em>Larix</em> where cytokinesis is of a successive type.