sporophyte (syn. sporophore)
1. The spore-bearing part or generation. In mosses, it consists of the seta and capsule and constitutes the so-called fruit. In ferns, the conspicuous plants that bear spores.
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The sporophytes are diploid plants responsible for the production of spores, and thus the generation of new gametophytes.
Sporophyte - The result of the mitotic division of the haploid spore. It can also form from the union of haploid gametes and later give rise meiotically to haploid spores.
Once sporophytes begin to develop, you may have to thin again. Continue to keep the containers and the mix as sterile as possible because the growing mix will have had to be exposed during various procedures.
Flowering plants have an alternation of generations in which the sporophyte generation is larger and nutritionally independent and the gametophyte generation is microscopic in size and nutritionally dependent on the sporophyte.
pteridophyte -- Plant in which the sporophyte generation is the larger phase and in which the gametophyte lives an existence independent of its parent sporophyte.
sporophyte search for term- n. (Gr. sporo, a seed; phyton, plant) the diploid spore-producing phase in plants with alternation of generations.spur search for term- n.
 See also: Plant, Genera, Botanical, Spore, Variety
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