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 team has now ...

DURING the course of a comparative study of several members of the Leguminosæ, I found an interesting type of endosperm formation in Cassia tora Linn. (family Cæsalpiniaceæ), a common roadside plant ...

Plant biologists at ITbM, Nagoya University, have made a key discovery that the contents in pollen tubes alone can increase the size of seeds, without the need for fertilization. This new plant ...

Vol. 303, No. 8, Special Issue: Polyploidy in Deep and Shallow Evolutionary Times (October 2017), pp. 1093-1108 (16 pages) Polyploidy is one of the most important evolutionary processes in plants. In ...

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 54, No. 381 (January 2003), pp. 279-290 (12 pages) In order to identify marker lines expressing GUS in various endosperm compartments and at different ...