And so if we choose a large seed, we have chosen a greater amount of food for the plantlet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference

This little plantlet feeds upon this stored food until its roots are prepared to do their work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference

See the bean plantlet, big, sturdy, fellow, is still clinging to its seed leaves or cotyledons, its baby nourishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference

A year ago I sowed seed by the ounce each of A. alpina and of A. sulphurea, but as yet not a single plantlet has rewarded me for my trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884] Reference

Two Heliamphoras pulchella and minor ‘Chiamanta’, two pots of Utricularia nelumbifolia, a bromeliad that has a utric plantlet in it, and a sundew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenery] Reference

The disadvantage of adventitious plantlet formation is that genetic variability often increases, especially when the plantlets are derived from callus.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. Household gardening projects in asia: past experience and future directions] Reference

In the hole the plantlet should then be suspended so all the roots and a little of the stem beneath the surface will be covered when the soil is replaced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses] Reference

Often there may be several branches upon the stem, and each of these may be used as a new plantlet provided it has some roots or a rooted part of the main stem attached to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses] Reference

It has come from a tiny helpless seed to a living plantlet with the smallest stem and root, and while the stem fights for a place in the air the root never ceases to get a strong hold of the dear earth in which the plant finds its home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music Talks with Children] Reference

The radicle of the dodder fixes itself in the earth, and the little stem rises as in other dicotyledons; but soon (for the plantlet could not live long thus) this stem, which is as slender as a thread, seeks support upon some neighboring plant, and produces upon its surfaces of contact one or more little protuberances that shortly afterward adhere firmly to the support and take on the appearance and functions of cupping glasses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884] Reference

Yet in this tiny plantlet lies hid the life of the future plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fairy-Land of Science] Reference

Only think how minute this plantlet must be in a primrose, where the whole seed is scarcely larger than a grain of sand!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fairy-Land of Science] Reference

Only one single maize plantlet could then be grown under standard laboratory conditions, and one further seedling showed abnormal growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

The rounded end of the plantlet (b) sticking out of the almond, is the beginning of the root, while the other end (a) will in time become the stem.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fairy-Land of Science] Reference

Page 25 like a delicate plantlet before the fury of tempestuous elements, so full of promise and possibilities, yet so sure of destruction; often without.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voice From the South] Reference

Imagine the tiny primrose plantlet to be made up of cells filled with active living protoplasm, which drinks in starch and other food from the seed-leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fairy-Land of Science] Reference

They are really cells full of protoplasm, with one little dark spot in each of them, which by-and-by is to make our little plantlet that we found in the seed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fairy-Land of Science] Reference

Sometimes the seed-leaves themselves come above the ground, as in the mustard-plant, and sometimes they are left empty behind, while the plantlet shoots through them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fairy-Land of Science] Reference

The two large fleshy seed leaves contain the stored-up food for the tiny plantlet until it is large enough and strong enough to get its food from the soil; hence, if these seed.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Captivity to Fame or The Life of George Washington Carver] Reference

The knob grows out at last into the young plantlet, and it is by means of the soft hole that it makes its escape through the shell to the air and the sunshine which it seeks without.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference

Lenders would widely nourish independently denotative to protrude practice exercises and microsoft word to you if you are rapidly tricky to plantlet them that you are a government oily person.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wii-volution]

We saw the plantlet buried in it, and learnt how it fed at first on prepared food, but soon began to make living matter for itself out of gases taken from the water through the cells to its stomach - the leaves!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fairy-Land of Science] Reference

Tip: you can propagate while the plantlet is still growing on the "mother" plant-just press the "baby" plantlet into rich potting soil that's kept moist-it will root and then you can snip it off the mother plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [TipNut.com] Reference

In each one of these they find a tiny hole, and into this they creep, and then they pour into the ovule all the protoplasm from the pollen-grain which is sticking above, and this enables it to grow into a real seed, with a tiny plantlet inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fairy-Land of Science] Reference

But these new particles cannot come in at the roots, for the seed has none; nor through the leaves, for they have not yet grown up; and so the plantlet begins by helping itself to the store of food laid up in the thick seed-leaves in which it is buried.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fairy-Land of Science] Reference

Doctor makes us his bow, so far as the professed article on pith goes; but, farther on, I find in his account of 'Sap-wood,' (Art. 224.) that in the germinating plantlet, the sap 'ascends first through the parenchyma, especially through its central portion or pith.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference

When a seed falls into the ground, so long as the earth is cold and dry, it lies like a person in a trance, as if it were dead; but as soon as the warm, damp spring comes, and the busy little sun-waves pierce down into the earth, they wake up the plantlet and make it bestir itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fairy-Land of Science] Reference

When the hairlike tube of the pollen-grain passes through the orifice in the coatings of the ovule, and reaches the nucleus, or embryo sack, it is supposed to emit a spermatic or plantlet germ, which passes through the wall of the embryo sack and enters the germinal vesicle contained in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot.] Reference

We had to pass on to the flower, and learn the use of the covering leaves, the gaily coloured crown attracting the insects, the dust-bags holding the pollen, the little ovules each with the germ of a new plantlet, lying hidden in the seed - vessel, waiting for the pollen-grains to grow down to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fairy-Land of Science] Reference

Every time you plant your feet upon the snow you press down thousands of seeds, minute forms of life, each with its little store of starch or albumen, carefully compounded in Nature's laboratory, sufficient to sustain the embryonic life until the tiny plantlet learns to draw nourishment from the breast of Mother Earth and to breathe health and vigor from the sunshine and the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Winter Days in Iowa] Reference

(a b, Fig. 37) is a young plant, and the two halves of the almond are the seed leaves which hold the plantlet, and feed it till it can feed itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fairy-Land of Science] Reference

Adventitious plantlet formation from callus has been reported with asparagus, broccoli, brussels sprouts, chives, cabbage, carrot, garlic, kale, lettuce, pepper, potato, tomato and sweet potato.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. Household gardening projects in asia: past experience and future directions] Reference