Structure of Embryo in the seeds of Engigmocarpon Parijai

N.V. Biradar; T.S. Mahabale

doi:10.54991/jop.1974.946

Authors

N.V. Biradar Botany Department, University of Poona, Poona-7, India
T.S. Mahabale Maharashtra Association for the Cultivation of Science, Poona 4, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1974.946

Abstract

The paper gives an account of the mature embryo, free nuclear endosperm, and the development of an operculum in the seeds of Enigmocarpon parijai Sahni - not reported previously. Only the epistase and hypostase were known before (Sahni, 1934, 1943; Mahabale & Deshpande, 1957).

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