Inhibiting Effects of Myrmicacin on Pollen Growth and Pollen Tube Mitosis

1 March 1978

journal article
research article
Published by University of Chicago Press in Botanical Gazette

Vol. 139 (1) , 42-45
https://doi.org/10.1086/336964

Abstract

Germination of pollen from 5 spp. [Antirrhinum majus, Camellia japonica, Hyacinthus orientalis, Impatiens balsamina and Lilium speciosum] was inhibited by synthetic dl-myrmicacin (dl-.beta.-hydroxydecanoic acid) but not by bromodeoxyuridine, actinomycin D, cycloheximide, or 2,4-D. Mitotic division of generative nucleus was also inhibited. Inhibition of germination was relieved by transfer to a medium lacking myrmicacin. Myrmicacin may be useful not only as a herbicide but also as a novel inhibitor for biological research.

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