Ovule and seed development in Eucalyptus woodwardii were observed from anthesis to capsule maturity by bright-field, fluorescence, and scanning electron microscopy following self-, cross-, and ...

Per‐fruit components of fecundity (ovules per ovary, seeds per fruit, seed : ovule ratio, and patterns of seed maturation within pods) were studied in 33 species of the Genisteae, a legume tribe of ...

Most fruits have seeds, which make them capable of developing into new plants. A fruit is a matured and ripened ovary of a plant, which is why it contains seeds for plant reproduction. Seeds are ...

Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) is one of the most popular fruit vegetable around the world. Seed abortion where in only a small proportion of ovules in an ovary develops into matured seeds, is ...

In the flowering plant world, reproduction means an intricate succession of events. It begins when a pollen grain that carries the sperm cells lands on the top of the pistil, the female reproductive ...

At the start of reproductive life an ovary contains, on average, several thousands of immature ovules in a resting state that can last for several decades. But how does each resting ovule know that it ...