Endosperm
"Endosperm" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Nutritive tissue of the seeds of flowering plants that surrounds the EMBRYOS. It is produced by a parallel process of fertilization in which a second male gamete from the pollen grain fuses with two female nuclei within the embryo sac. The endosperm varies in ploidy and contains reserves of starch, oils, and proteins, making it an important source of human nutrition.
| Descriptor ID |
D056625
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A18.024.500.750.666
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