polarizing embryo sac characters, etc.

[Curtis Clark]

At 11:06 2004-01-28, Ken Kinman wrote:
>It would have been better if I had referred to it as haploid "nutritive
>tissue" in gymnosperms.

Or perhaps "female gametophyte". An important distinction (and one about
which I don't know the details in these groups) is whether the cells of a
nutritive tissue are formed before fertilization (e.g. your average
"gymnopserm") or after and as a result of fertilization (your average
flowering plant).


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