Embryology in Taxonomy: Embryology is the study of the process of formation of embryo in a fertilised ovule, i.e., the study of the changes taking place in an ovule before and after the fertilisation. In other words, it is the study of: (a) Micro- and macro-sporogenesis in the diploid generation, (b) Micro- and mega-gametophytes in the haploid generation and (c) [...]
In this article we will discuss about the Survey of Botanic Gardens in India. Indian Botanic Garden: As early as 1786 Colonel Robert Kyd, a Military Engineer of the East Indian Company and a keen lover of gardening sent a proposal to the Directors of the Company in London that a Botanic Garden be established near Calcutta. The purpose of [...]
The seed of an angiospermic plant consists of an embryo covered by the seed-coat. The embryo has one or two cotyledons and the tigellum. One end of the tigellum is the radicle and the other end is the plumule. On germination the radicle penetrates the soil and produces the roots, while the plumule develops into the shoot of the plant [...]