suspensor
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0020108
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- exact: 胚柄 (Japanese)
- exact: suspensor (Spanish)
- Definition
- An embryonic plant structure at the base of a plant embryo that develops from an embryonic basal cell and connects an embryo proper to the wall of a megagametophyte. [source: PMID:12271036]
- Comment
- The suspensor often allows the embryo to penetrate deep into the endosperm. Across plant species, suspensors are morphologically diverse and may be single- or multicellular, undifferentiated or highly differentiated, and variously shaped.
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