Structural and physiological relationships between embryo and endosperm at the early stages of development

A. A. Chebotaru

Abstract


In Zea mays different factors cause the considerable aberrations both in the ratio of the dividing cells of proembryo to the endosperm nuclei and in their interaction. These factors are: age of female flower, type of pollination, high and low temperatures, high humidity and drought, shortening of maize silk or its treatment with saturated vapours of naphtalene or poison gases.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5586/asbp.1981.042

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  • 2083-9480 (online)
  • 0001-6977 (print; ceased since 2016)
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