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endosperm::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | reproductive structure |
Examples of endosperm
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All-purpose white flour is milled from the endosperm portion of the grain kernel.
From the dailyherald.com
One-way control of FWA imprinting in Arabidopsis endosperm by DNA methylation.
From the nature.com
Have you analyzed the starch content of the endosperm, the inner, meaty layer?
From the time.com
Mr Pollan neglects to mention the total lack of an endosperm in orchid seeds.
From the guardian.co.uk
Unlike the cells of the starchy endosperm, aleurone cells remain alive at maturity.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Its endosperm is initially in its nuclear phase suspended within the coconut water.
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Other physical defenses include spines, hairs, fibrous seed coats and hard endosperm.
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The whole grain can be milled to leave just the endosperm for white flour.
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In a mature coconut, a thick albuminous endosperm adheres to the inside of the testa.
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- Nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants
- Endosperm is the tissue produced under the seeds of most flowering plants around the time of fertilization. It surrounds the embryo and provides nutrition in the form of starch, though it can also contain oils and protein. This makes endosperm an important source of nutrition in human diet. ...
- A food storage tissue that provides nutrients to the developing embryo in angiosperms; formed from the triploid cell produced when a sperm cell fertilizes the central cell. Some endosperm is solid (as in corn), some is liquid (as in coconut). PICTURE
- A nutritive tissue, characteristic of flowering plants, which nourishes the embryo In most plants it is a transient tissue absorbed by the embryo before maturity whereas in cereals and grasses it contains storage reserves in the mature grain and is not absorbed until after germination. ...
- The nutritive tissue of a seed, consisting of carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids.
- The nonliving part of the barley grain, which contains starch and protein to feed the growing acrospire.
- Nutritive starch- and oil-containing tissue present in many seeds.
- Monocot plants store food in a part of the seed called the endosperm.
- A nutritive material in seeds of the Anthophyta, formed from the triple fusion nucleus.
