megasporocyte
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0000431
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- narrow: Poaceae megasporocyte
- narrow: Zea megasporocyte
- alt_id: PO:0006463
- alt_id: PO:0006493
- exact: megaspore mother cell
- exact: megasporocito (Spanish)
- exact: MMC
- exact: 大胞子母細胞 (Japanese)
- Definition
- A sporocyte (PO:0006204) that produces four haploid (1n) megaspores (PO:0020019). [source: ISBN:0471245208, POC:Laurel_Cooper]
- Comment
- If you are annotating to this structure for Zea mays or other grasses, please also add an annotation to the corresponding floret type. Choose the most specific term possible from: spikelet floret (PO:0009082), ear floret (PO:0006354), upper floret of pedicellate spikelet of ear (PO:0006350), upper floret of sessile spikelet of ear (PO:0006352).
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