Premium
REGENERATION IN MONOCOTYLEDONOUS SEEDLINGS
Author(s) -
La Rue Carl D.
Publication year - 1935
Publication title -
american journal of botany
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.218
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1537-2197
pISSN - 0002-9122
DOI - 10.1002/j.1537-2197.1935.tb05037.x
Subject(s) - citation , biology , library science , computer science
The experiments described in this paper were made for comparison with those conducted by the writer on dicotyledonous seedlings (La Rue, 1933). Sixty years ago Van Tieghem (1873) published an account of researches on germination in which he stated that maize seedlings from which the plumules had been removed were unable to form new shoots, though they lived for a month or more and formed adventitious roots. Andronescu (1920) found that maize embryos which had been removed from their endosperms were able to develop into mature, though small, plants. When he removed the scutella as well as the endosperms, he found the plumules unable to grow out from their coleoptiles. Brown (1922) studied the effect of mutilation of maize seeds on germination and yield. His experiments differ from other similar tests in that they were carried out under field conditions and were continued to maturity of the plants.