A, Habit and habitat; B, Cultivated plant at anthesis; C, Staminate flower, face view; D, Staminate flower, side view; E, Carpellate flower, face view; F, Carpellate flower, side view; G, Inflorescence and bracts; H, Stipules on rhizomes; I, Fruit; J, Cross section of fruit.
Fig. 3 Overview of leaves, fruit and cross section of ovary in Begonia griffithiana and B. nepalensis.
Style and stigmatic band, dorsal, side, and ventral views; H. Fruit; I. Cross sections of immature fruit.
Style and stigmatic band, dorsal, ventral and side views; I. Fruit; J. Cross sections of immature fruit.
Figure 7 Begonia peridoticola Rimi, C.-I Peng & C. W. Lin. A. Habit and habitat; B. Habit, dorsal and ventral views; C. Stipule; D. Portion of leaf, adaxial surface; E. Portion leaf, abaxial surface; F. Lowermost cyme; G. Upper cymes with staminate flowers; H. Staminate flower; I. Pistillate flower; J. Fruit, side view; K. Cross section of an immature fruit.
Fruit firmness was measured at the middle cross section of the fruit with a firmness tester GY-1.
A, Habit; B 1, Leaf adaxial surface; B 2, Leaf abaxial surface; C, Stipule; D, Bract; E, Staminate flower; F, Androecium; G, Stamens; H, Carpellate flower; I 1, I 2, Style and Stigmas; J, Fruit; J 1-6, Serial cross sections of fruit.
Each fruit was cross-sectioned into two halves: one half were used for maturity evaluation and fruit juice extraction, and the other half were sliced and immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen for RNA isolation and for quantitation of malate and other metabolites.
Pericarp and placenta size was measured from the cross section of the fruit after harvest.
While similar to its natural model in dimensions and underlying optical interactions, the artificial system avoids many of the complexities in the natural structure including the ellipticity of the fruit cells' cross-section and any existing fine structure within the periodic layers.
