SUMMARY

LECTURE
❑ Subject - Botany

❑ Chapter – Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants

One Shot By: Vipin Sharma Sir

 Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants

• Pollen is nutrient rich

and may cause
allergies.
• 60% angiosperms:
Pollen shed in 2-celled
stage and in rest
(40%) in 3 –celled
Mitosis stage.

Variable viability
• Wheat and Rice: 30 Called male
mins gametophyte
• Rosaceae, Solanaceae,
Leguminaceae: Months
 Outbreeding Devices
1. Production of unisexual flowers
2. Non-synchrony
3. Position different
4. Self-incompatibility
 Fruit (fertilised ovary)
1. True: Mango
2. False: Apple, Strawberry, Cashew
3. Parthenocarpic: Banana

Apomixis
Formation of seeds without fertilisation e.g.,
Asteraceae and grasses

Polyembryony
Formation of more than one embryo e.g., Citrus,
Mango

Seed (Fertilised ovule); have seed coats named

testa (outer) and tegmen (inner)
Albuminous Non-albuminous (non-
(endospermic) endospermic)
Usually monocots Mostly dicots except
except castor (dicot) orchid (monocot)
Wheat, maize Pea, groundnut