FLOWERING, SEED AND SEEDLING BEHAVIOUR OF INDIAN LEGUMINOUS TREES

摘要

The most common detachable vehicle of reproduction carrying the genetic information of new individual is seed. Botanically it is the mature integumented megasp-orangium. Every ovule(s) of angiosperms is generally endowed with two integuments and is enclosed within a case formed by a carpel or many carpels, which is known as fruit. On maturity these ovules after fertilization changes (e.g. hardening or drying up of whole structure) into seeds. A seed contains an embryo, which passes through a period of dormancy and germinates when proper conditions are achieved.