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Plant and Cell Physiology, 1986, Vol. 27, No. 5 903-910
© 1986

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Heart-Shaped Prothallia of the Fern Adiantum capillus-veneris L. Develop in the Polarization Plane of White Light

Akeo Kadota and Masamitsu Wada

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University Fukazawa, Tokyo 158, Japan

When red light-precultured filamentous protonemata of Adiantum capillus-veneris were cultured under linearly polarized white light, heart-shaped prothallia developed in the plane parallel to the vibration plane of electrical vector of polarized light, and were directed toward the light source. When the polarization plane was rotated during the culture, the prothallial wings twisted correspondingly to develop in the new plane. Continual observation of the early steps of prothallial development with a time-lapse video system revealed that the apical cell of protonema after the first transverse cell division became flattened in the vibration plane of electrical vector of polarized light, and that the first longitudinal cell division, that is, the first step in the transition from one-dimensional to two-dimensional growth, as well as the subsequent cell divisions, occurred perpendicularly to the electrical vector.

(Received February 20, 1986; Accepted May 7, 1986)
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