ovule
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The tube extends through the style and into the ovary, allowing sperm cells to reach the egg and central cells in an ovule for fertilization.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2024
In addition to the 45-minute blocking process that prevents multiple sperm from fertilizing the same ovule, a repulsion signal also directs rejected suitors towards other unpaired ovules.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2024
One megaspore mother cell, or megasporocyte, undergoes meiosis in each ovule.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The ovule, sheltered within the ovary of the carpel, contains the megasporangium protected by two layers of integuments and the ovary wall.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Ovary with two abortive or empty cells and one containing a suspended ovule.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
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