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Monoembryony

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Monoembryony is the emergence of one and only one seedling from a seed. A seed giving two or more seedlings is polyembryonic. Some of the nuclear cells surrounding the embryo sac start dividing and protrude into the embryo sac and develop into embryos. [1]

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  1. ^ American Journal of Botany 98(10): 1613–1622. 2011. https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.3732/ajb.1100022