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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