Define Epigeal and Hypogeal

Tim Harvey zigur@hotmail.com
Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:23:16 PST
Yes, exactly!

 

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> From: jimmckenney@jimmckenney.com
> To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 16:10:52 -0500
> Subject: Re: [pbs] Define Epigeal and Hypogeal
> 
> I agree with Tim that the meanings of epigeal and hypogeal, at least at a
> literal level, are clear, and that the uncertainty Jim Shields has
> expressed is due to his associating the word germination (instead of the
> word cotyledon) with the words epigeal and hypogeal. 
> 
> 
> 
> I think what Jim Shields has called epigeal germination and hypogeal
> germination might better be called epigeal cotyledon and hypogeal cotyledon.
> That leaves us with four categories: epigeal cotyledons, hypogeal
> cotyledons, epigeal germination and hypogeal germination. Punnett square,
> anyone? 
> 

 		 	   		  


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