plant embryo bilateral stage
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0004507
- Aspect
- plant structure development stage
- Synonyms
- related: heart stage in Arabidopsis
- related: heart-shape stage
- related: transition stage in maize
- related: triangle stage in Arabidopsis
- alt_id: PO:0001043
- alt_id: PO:0001177
- Definition
- A plant embryo development stage (PO:0007631) that occurs during the interval between the transition from radial to bilateral symmetry in a plant embryo proper (PO:0000001) and the onset of either the plant embryo cotyledonary stage (PO:0001078) or the plant embryo coleoptilar stage (PO:0001094). [source: PMID:24784759, POC:Laurel_Cooper, POC:Ramona_Walls, TAIR:Katica_Ilic]
- Comment
- A plant embryo bilateral stage is commonly known as the heart stage in dicotyledonous plants and the transition stage in monocots. Preceded by a plant embryo globular stage (PO:0001185).
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