Germination
"Germination" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The initial stages of the growth of SEEDS into a SEEDLINGS. The embryonic shoot (plumule) and embryonic PLANT ROOTS (radicle) emerge and grow upwards and downwards respectively. Food reserves for germination come from endosperm tissue within the seed and/or from the seed leaves (COTYLEDON). (Concise Dictionary of Biology, 1990)
| Descriptor ID |
D018525
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G07.700.320.625.249 G15.744.300
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