Perisperm

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A perisperm is a nutrient tissue in plant seeds that emerges from the nucellus . In water lily plants , pepper plants and ginger plants , it exists alongside the endosperm . In contrast, it serves as the sole nutrient tissue for many carnation species . In contrast to the mostly triploid endosperm , the perisperm is diploid and it consists mainly of starch .

Similar is the rare Chalazosperm , which is also diploid and emerges from the Chalaza adjacent to the Nucellus. This can occur alone or together with the perisperm if there is no endosperm.

literature

  • Peter Sitte, Hubert Ziegler, Friedrich Ehrendorfer, Andreas Bresinsky: Strasburger, textbook of botany. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart, Jena, New York 1991, ISBN 3-437-20447-5 , p. 753.

Individual evidence

  1. Jaime Kigel, Gad Galili: Seed Development and Germination. Marcel Dekker, 1995, ISBN 0-8247-9229-7 , p. 3.
  2. RMT Dahlgren, HT Clifford, PF Yeo: The Families of the Monocotyledons. Springer, 1985, ISBN 978-3-642-64903-5 , pp. 16, 72, 87.