The Embryology of Angiosperms

Embryology of angiosperms deals with the study of structures and processes associated with the formation of gametes, fertilization and development of embryo and its nutritive and protective tissues. It is an area of considerable basic and applied interest. This popular textbook for b. Sc. (general and hons) and m. Sc. Serves the students of botany, agriculture and forestry for their regular courses and competitive examinations. It explains all the important topics such as development and structure of male and female gametophytes, pollination, fertilization, sexual incompatibility, development of endosperm and embryo, polyembryony, apomixis and seed development. It also describes embryology in relation to taxonomy and experimental and applied embryology. A large number of illustrations and self-explanatory diagrams and pithy text are the strong points of the book. Application of advanced microscopic techniques in recent years has thrown new light on the kinetics of double fertilization, mechanism of movement of the sperms in the pollen tube and in the embryo sac to effect fertilization, and the behaviour of organeller genomes during male gametogenesis, giving new insight into the inheritance of extra-nuclear traits. The book has been translated into japanese and korean languages also.