The endosperm, the tissue surrounding the plant embryo in the seed, has long been perceived as a nourishing tissue that is abandoned once the transition to the seedling is complete. A Swiss team, led ...
THE embryology and seed structure of the Cucurbitaceae have attracted much attention, and a good deal of work has been done by Longo, Kirkwood, Kratzer, Singh, and others 1, most of it based on a ...