sporocyte
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0006204
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- exact: esporocito (Spanish)
- exact: 胞子母細胞 (Japanese)
- exact: meiocyte
- exact: spore mother cell
- Definition
- A native plant cell (PO:0025606) which is diploid (2n), and undergoes meiosis (GO:0007126) to produce four haploid (1n) plant spores (PO:0025017). [source: GR:Pankaj_Jaiswal, POC:Laurel_Cooper]
- Comment
- None
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