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Coconuts & Trivia
Coconut fruits are drupes, with the outer layers of the husk
representing the exocarp and mesocarp. The "shell" of the de-husked coconut that one buys in the store is the endocarp, with the seed inside. Botanical trivia: Coconut endosperm starts out as a liquid--lots of nuclei, no cell walls--and gradually solidifies into the white "meat." There's a little embryo in there that will emerge from one of the "eyes" in the endocarp. Plant scientists studying growth regulators and embryo development tried squirting hundreds and hundreds of things into their cell cultures. On a whim, someone tried coconut milk. Pow! Results. Since then, several hundred cytokinin derivatives have been isolated from coconut milk. See: http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/e31/31c.htm Monique Reed in cold and wet Texas A&M So what *is* the seed in the coconut fruit? Just the embryo? |
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