Abstract
Advanced globular embryos of Capsella and early heart-shaped embryos of Arabidopsis begin to show chlorophyll fluorescence. It is not present in the suspensor, epiphysis, radicle and embryo of Stellaria. Cutin fluorescence appears on the protoderm of all advanced globular embryos. Fluorescence disappears during the early torpedo stage. It is not present on suspensors.
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Rodkiewicz, B., Fyk, B. & Szczuka, E. Chlorophyll and cutin in early embryogenesis in Capsella, Arabidopsis, and Stellaria investigated by fluorescence microscopy. Sexual Plant Reprod 7, 287–289 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00227711
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00227711