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THE homologies of the various organs of the graminaceous embryo and caryopsis have been the subject of much debate in the past. Jacques-Félix1, who recently summarized again the various theories, has suggested that the epiblast is the sole leaf of the primary axis or ‘protocorm’; other theories give the epiblast the status of an auricle, or a cotyledon.
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Jacques-Félix, M. H., Eighty-third Cong. Soc. Savants (1958).
Nishimura, M., Jap. J. Bot., 1, 55 (1922).
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BIRCH, W. Epiblast in Gramineae. Nature 198, 304 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/198304a0
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