The fruits are often exploding capsules containing seeds borne on hooks on the placenta.
Each plant is capable of producing hundreds of seeds borne in narrow fruits known as siliques.
The true flowers are inconspicuous, but the very abundant seeds bear winglike bracts that resemble showy flowers.
The small flowers typically feature colourful bracts and are arranged in dense showy inflorescences; a single plant can produce hundreds or thousands of seeds, borne singly in dry capsule fruits.
To explore whether the small grain phenotype is caused by disruption of OsINV3 in the maternal or the filial tissues, seeds borne on the heterozygous plants were analyzed, and corresponding weights of hulled grain were determined for the segregated alleles, namely INV3 +/−, INV3 +/+ and INV3 −/−.
The seeds borne on the female trees are 5 mm in diameter and each is encapsulated in a samara that is 2.5 cm long (1 in) and 1 cm broad, appearing July though August, but can persist on the tree until the next spring.
Some AG seeds bear adhering fruit pulp, oils, or lipid-rich elaiosomes, which could motivate seed collection by multiple ant species, but published observations support some level of specialization in the ant-seed interaction.
Seeds bear an outer envelope and an inner integument which usually extends upward and passes through the opening of the outer envelope, forming a thin and hollow micropylar tube.
Determining the number of seeds borne by each cone scale or cone scale bract complex is of utmost importance for the determination of a cone to the family level.
The F3 seeds borne on F2 plants were classified into two groups: seeds with zero (<0.3 μmoles/g seed), and seeds with medium to high (124.8-237.5 μmoleseedseed) HBEN contents, fitting well with a phenotypic ratio of 1 (zero):3 (medium to high) (χ = 1.0, P = 0.31).
