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endosperm

endosperm

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The part inside a seed that stores food for the young plant
  • noun
  • /ˈɛndəˌspɜrm/
  • Specialized
: endosperma
  • In contrast, traditional diets that included cereal grains use them in a whole form, including the fiber, germ, and endosperm.
  • diploid endosperm
  • triploid endosperm
  • germ and endosperm

So B stands for bran, E stands for endosperm, and G stands for germ.

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Examples

  • So B stands for bran, E stands for endosperm, and G stands for germ.

    Rich Roll

  • The endosperm is commonly the only part of grains that is eaten, while the nutrient-rich germ is discarded.

    Academic text (2004)

  • Again, these are all those two light, no endosperm in there, non viable seats.

  • Some of them have more endosperm, some of them have more bran and germ.

  • If you think about flour, a grain of of wheat is endosperm, all starch wrapped in this bran layer.

    Stanford

  • The seeds of most flowering plants have endosperms with stored protein to nourish embryonic plants during germination.

    Blog text (25)

  • Gluten is the composite of a gliadin and a glutelin, which is conjoined with starch in the endosperm of various grass-related grains.

    Blog text (25)

  • For example, the engineering of provitamin A into rice endosperm, also known as "golden" rice, provides a means of supplementing vitamin A intake in diets otherwise deficient (Ye et al., 2000).

    Academic text (2005)

  • Second, rice is polished in order to remove the fats that turn rice rancid, and what little carotenoids there are exist in the aleurone and embryo, not in the endosperm. However, maize can be left whole with little rancidity problems.

    Blog text (14)

  • The white endosperm, containing starch and protein, will nourish the new plant when it sprouts.

Surface Forms

endosperm singular
endosperms plural

Morphology

endosperm = sperm (semi-transparent) = endo + sperm

Formally 'endo-' (inside) + 'sperm' (seed), but 'sperm' is commonly known in a reproductive sense and the botanical sense is specialized, so the relation is only partly guessable for general learners.

Etymology

The word endosperm comes from the Greek parts endo- meaning 'inside' and -sperm meaning 'seed', so it literally means 'inner seed'. That's why the endosperm is the part inside a seed that stores food and feeds the developing plant embryo.