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The lower limit of seed size to organize energy and produce a plant; what is it?
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13-05-2006, 07:13 AM posted to sci.bio.botany,sci.physics
Charles
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The lower limit of seed size to organize energy and produce a plant; what is it?
On 12 May 2006 23:05:36 -0700,
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There must be a lower limit as to the size of a seed, for which it is
impossible to grow a plant therefrom. A strawberry seed is very small
but probably not the smallest in existence.
Elm seeds are small in relation to becoming a woody plant of a tree.
Can you have a tree come from a seed that is as small as a strawberry
seed?
Can you have a seed as small as a "big virus" or "small bacteria"?
So what I am fathoming into, is the question of the limitations of size
of plant seed in order for the entity to grow into a plant.
Somewhere in size, say in millimeters or smaller comes a lower limit
for which the seed cannot organize itself into a plant. What is this
lower limit? And the physics comes into the picture as to the
photosynthesis takes over as the energy source. So is there a Lower
Limit in size in which photosynthesis cannot take over the duties of
growing the plant.
Archimedes Plutonium
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whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies
Read about orchid seeds. Too small to have any stored food, need a
fungus to feed them but they gave the genetic material necessary.
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