plant egg cell
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0020094
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- exact: female gamete
- exact: megagamete
- exact: oocélula (Spanish)
- exact: 植物卵細胞 (Japanese)
- broad: egg cell
- broad: non-mobile gamete
- Definition
- A gamete (PO:0025006) produced by an archegonium (PO:0025126) or an embryo sac (PO:0025074). [source: POC:curators]
- Comment
- The plant egg cell (megagamete) is usually larger than the plant sperm cell (PO:0000084; microgamete).
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