plant embryo proper
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0000001
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- exact: embrióforo (Spanish)
- exact: 胚本体 (Japanese)
- Definition
- An embryonic plant structure (PO:0025099) that is the body of a developing plant embryo (PO:0009009) attached to the maternal tissue in an plant ovule (PO:0020003) by a suspensor (PO:0020108). [source: POC:Laurel_Cooper, POC:Ramona_Walls]
- Comment
- The embryo proper is the entire embryo exclusive of the suspensor.
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