Spiral secondary walls are found in hyaline cells of Sphagnum, in the elaters of most liverworts, and in elaters of the hornwort Megaceros. Recent studies on these cells suggest that cytoskeletal and ultrastructural processes involved in cell differentiation and secondary wall formation are similar ...
Examines the secondary wall formation in elaters of liverworts and the hornwort megaceros. Characterization of liverworts and hortworts; Elongation of elaters before secondary wall deposition; Composition of the secondary wall of liverwort elaters....
wall in liverworts is usually described as smooth, our discovery of deep schizogenous fissures in the unistratose walls in Haplomitrium appears unique to this earliest diverging liverwort genus and may have important implications for understanding the evolution of the stomatal toolkit in land plants....