SEED FORMATION

SEED FORMATION

All flowering plants produce seeds. The seeds are a tiny part of a plant which gives rise to a new plant. Seeds is found in different shapes, sizes, and colors.

It can be a pip (like an apple), a nut (in walnut), or a bean (pea, pulses). Let’s find out more about it.

SEED AND ITS PARTS

A seed has the following parts:

SEED COAT: 

·      It is the outer covering the of seed. It protects the internal parts.

EMBRYO OR BABY PLANT: 

·     It is present inside the seed which develop into a new plant.

·     The embryo gives rise to root and a baby shoot.

SEED LEAVES OR COTYLEDONS: 

·     Cotyledons are present inside the seed.

·     They absorb the food from the parent plant and store it for the embryo.

·     They also protect the embryo.

MONOCOT SEEDS/DICOT SEEDS

MONOCOT SEEDS:

·    Monocots have only one seed leaf inside the seed coat. It is usually a thin leaf. They are also called monocotyledonous.

·    When a monocot seed germinates, it produces a single leaf.

·   The leaves of monocots are often long and narrow, with their veins in straight lines up and down the leaf. 

·     The stems of monocots are usually unbranched and fleshy.

·     Monocots have a fibrous root system.  

EXAMPLES:

All Grasses, Rice, wheat, maize, bamboo, palm, banana, ginger, onion,
garlic, lilies, daffodils, iris, orchids, bluebells, tulips.