Figure 1.
Tissue differentiation and development of wheat grain. Wheat grain cross-sections at (left) 150 and (right) 250 growing degree days (GDD) using bright-field micrographs of toluidine blue-stained sections. pe: pericarp, ep: external pericarp, pa: pericarp parenchyma, ne: nucellus epidermis, t: testa, al: aleurone layer, en: endosperm. Scale bars: 250 μm.