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Q.Differentiate Secretary and invasive tapetum.

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Step 1. Both types of tapetum share the same underlying job: nourishing the developing sporogenous tissue, microspore mother cells and microspores.

Step 2. Secretory tapetum, also called parietal, glandular or cellular tapetum, keeps its individual cells in their original position, with intact cell walls, throughout this nourishing role.

Step 3. Invasive (periplasmodial) tapetum, by contrast, has its cells lose their inner tangential and radial walls; the protoplasts of all the tapetal cells then merge together into a single continuous mass called a periplasmodium. …

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