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Proembryo

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Pro`em´bry`o
n.1.(Bot.) The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo.


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The proembryo and precotyledonary embryo stages were not identified, and the somatic embryos did not appear to be subtended by a suspensor.
EXPERIMENT 1 Proembryo proliferation and development could be quantified after the first month, but no significant treatment differences could be discerned until the third month.
Genetic transformation of plants can now be approached by a variety of other methods (Potrykus, 1991), including viral vectors, gene transfer to protoplasts, particle-gun bolistics, microinjection into proembryos, electroporation, and so forth (Christou, 1996).
 
 
 
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