Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/828/en

The cereals belong to the grasses and as such to the monocotyledons. The seeds are organised into the embryo and the starchy endosperm. Both are separated from each other by the single cotyledon, the scutellum. On germination, the cotyledon does not emerge into the light, as is the rule with the dicotyledons, and does not turn green as they do — it remains embedded in the soil within the seed coat. What appears is already the sharpening first leaf. The seedling is the elaboration of what is