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THE synergids in the embryosac of angiosperms usually degenerate as soon as the process of fertilisation has been completed. During the course of a morphological study of Ammania baccifera, Linn. (Lythraceæ), however, we have found them to be persistent up to a very late stage of embryo formation and even to develop further during this period in a very peculiar manner which, so far as we have been able to find, has not before been reported in any flowering plant.
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JOSHI, A., VENKATESWARLU, J. Exceptional Behaviour of the Synergids in the Embryosac of Angiosperms. Nature 132, 409 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132409b0
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