Sentences with phrase «plant endosperm»
The plant endosperm has been an important factor in the establishment of a mutualistic relationship with humans - to facilitate their survival and spread, crop plants have evolved larger backpacks to ensure continued utility to humans.
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Wheat's seed head (the top of the plant) is made from three portions: the germ, the bran, and the endosperm.
Flowering plants have evolved a sheltered three - tissue seed design that packs a lunch (the nutritive tissue called the endosperm) and an overcoat (the hard, protective seed coating) along with the embryo itself.
In the plant - model Arabidopsis thaliana, the state of dormancy is maintained by the endosperm, a single cell layer within the seed coat surrounding the embryo, which synthesizes and continuously releases ABA towards the embryo.
The researcher and her PhD student Simrat Pal Singh succeeded in genetically modifying rice plants such that in addition to sufficient levels of iron and zinc, they also produce significant levels of beta - carotene in the endosperm of the grain compared to normal varieties.
The ancestors of the modern maize planted today in the US and worldwide had much smaller endosperms.
The ancestors of the modern maize planted today across large acreages in the U.S. and worldwide had much smaller endosperms.
To ensure successful colonization by these vulnerable creatures, the mother plant provides the embryo with a backpack full of energy, called the endosperm.
The fruit of most flowering plants have endosperms with stored protein to nourish embryonic plants during germination.
Endosperm: The germ's food supply, which, if the grain were allowed to grow would provide essential energy to the young plant.
In its natural state growing in the fields, whole grain is the entire seed of the plant (also called the kernel), consisting of three parts: the bran, the germ and the endosperm.
So, the definition of gluten used by human nutritionists describes the contents of the endosperm (which provides nutrition to a plant embryo inside a seed) of a certain subset of cereal grains (wheat, rye, barley, triticale).