seed coat
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0009088
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- exact: cubierta de la semilla (Spanish)
- exact: 種子種皮 (Japanese)
- exact: portion of seed coat tissue
- Definition
- A portion of plant tissue that is the covering of a seed derived from ovular - mainly integumentary - tissue. [source: APweb:Glossary, GR:Pankaj_Jaiswal, TAIR:Leonore_Reiser]
- Comment
- Used only when not specified more precisely; see testa, tegmen.
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