ovule
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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
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
A new diploid sporophyte is formed when a male gamete from a pollen grain enters the ovule sac and fertilizes this egg.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Either the ovule or part of the ovary, which is diploid in nature, gives rise to a new seed.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Ovary 3-celled; two of the cells empty, the other with a single 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 Asa Gray
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