Note:Food reserve of the seeds may or may not be stored in the endosperm. Gram seed is a dicot seed in which endosperm is absent, therefore, it is non-endospermic. In gram seed, nutrition is provided by cotyledon to the embryo. Maize seed is a monocot ...
known as the rachis bears laterally a number of leaflets, arranged alternately or in an opposite manner, as in tamarind, gram, gold mohur, rain tree, senstivie, plant, gum tree (Acacia), Cassia etc. (Fig. 4.16 A to E). It may be of the following types: ...