Earlier consumption and less processing makes sweetcorn a better source of dietary zinc.
Tag - endosperm
Erin Zimmerman
A diversity of lipid composition in the seeds and fruits of the palm family
Palms are vitally important due to their high vegetable oil production, which can occur in both fruits and seeds. The full range of lipid storage and composition, however, hasn’t been well understood across this large...
Integration between developmental pathways during reserve mobilization in palm seeds
Palm seeds are interesting models for studying seed reserve mobilization at the tissue level due to the abundance and complexity of reserves stored in their living endosperm cells and the development of a highly...
botanyone
Endosperm development and hybrid seed failure in wild tomatoes
The overall results suggest that near-complete hybrid seed failure can evolve fairly rapidly and without apparent divergence in reproductive phenology/biology.
Plant records: Can a plant be too trusting?
Name: Orchids Scientific name: Family: Orchidaceae Known for: Beauty, epiphytism, providing vanilla flavouring, tiny seeds, mycorrhizae, deceptive pollination, mycoheterotrophy, medicinal usage, vegetating Krakatoa…...
Nigel Chaffey
How rice germinates under water
Rice has the rare ability to germinate and elongate a coleoptile under oxygen-deficient conditions. Here's why.
AJ Cann
Ricinosomes and cell death in quinoa seeds
Early detection of Cys-EP in ricinosomes may predict the occurrence of programmed cell death during late seed development in quinoa.
Reproductive differentiation into sexual and apomictic cytotypes
Mechanisms enabling the maintenance of sexual and apomictic modes of seed formation in sympatry are poorly understood. Dobeš et al. study populations of Potentilla puberula representing various combinations of five...
Maize seed ‘Feed me’ gene identified
Unlike ‘Audrey 2’ – the plant which ate members of the cast from ‘The Little Shop of Horrors’ (botanically suspect but with some good songs) – the maize seed grows on the cob by extracting goodies from the...
annbot
Small scale milling of wheat flour in a roadside shop
This is a video of a flour mill with two stones in a small shop outside the gates of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India. The film shows the grain being poured into the hoppers above the stones, and then...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
Apomixis is not prevalent in a high-alpine ecosystem
`Apomixis is not prevalent in a high-alpine ecosystem Apomixis (agamospermy) is expected to provide selective advantages in high alpine environments, where conditions tend to be unfavourable for sexual reproduction of...
