Re: HYB: seeds

It may be helpful to recall that fertilization of flowering plants is a
two-fertilization process.  A fully mature-looking seed may lack an embryo, or
a scrap may have embryo but lack endosperm.  The two--embryo and
endosperm--are derived from separate fertilizations.

I've never heard of any "100%" geminations, and even those using embryo
culture fall short of that--since not all apparently good seeds have them.

Neil Mogensen  z 7  western NC mountains.

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