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The hilum is the white region in the center of the namesake "black eye" of the black-eyed pea. In botany, a hilum (pronounced / ˈ h aɪ l ə m /) is a scar or mark left on a seed coat by the former attachment to the ovary wall or to the funiculus (which in turn attaches to the ovary wall).
Radicles in seedlings are classified into two main types. Those pointing away from the seed coat scar or hilum are classified as antitropous, and those pointing towards the hilum are syntropous. If the radicle begins to decay, the seedling undergoes pre-emergence damping off. This disease appears on the radicle as darkened spots.
Sean Bean (born Shaun Mark Bean; 17 April 1959) is an English actor. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art , he made his professional debut in a production of Romeo and Juliet in 1983 at The Watermill Theatre. [ 1 ]
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Colletotrichum lindemuthianum is a fungus which causes anthracnose, or black spot disease, of the common bean plant (Phaseolus vulgaris).It is considered a hemibiotrophic pathogen because it spends part of its infection cycle as a biotroph, living off of the host but not harming it, and the other part as a necrotroph, killing and obtaining nutrients from the host tissues.
The most common type of scarification is mechanical scarification.. In mechanical scarification, the testa is physically opened to allow moisture and air in. [1] Seed coats may be filed with a metal file, rubbed with sandpaper, nicked with a knife, cracked gently with a hammer, or weakened or opened in any other way.
Jointed; separating freely, leaving a clean scar; e.g. the frond s of certain ferns where they join the rhizome. ascending 1. (of a stem) Spreading horizontally, then directed upward; an ascending stem is more or less prostrate near its base, then erect. 2. (of an ovule) Attached somewhat above the base. ascidiate
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