Question

Give role of tapetum and explain.

Answer 1

Tapetum

• The wall of anther is multilayered and is composed of Epidermis, Endothecium, Middle layer and Tapetum.

• The tapetum is a nutritive tissue which surrounds the sporogenous tissue.

• The developing pollen grains consumes of tapetum.

• The sporogenous cells divides and give rise to microspore mother cell ( MMC).

• The anther matures, each diploid MMC undergo meiosis to form four haploid microspore or pollen grains.