MadSci Network: Botany
Query:

Re: What is apple germination?

Date: Fri Nov 3 08:14:11 2006
Posted By: Joseph E. Armstrong, Faculty, Botany, Illinois State University
Area of science: Botany
ID: 1162497458.Bt
Message:

When a seed or a spore begins to grow that is called germination.  Seed 
germination usually involves the emergence of the root and shoot, 
sometimes with the cotyledons (embryonic leaves) and sometimes not, of 
the embryonic plant.  Some people also use germination in reference to 
sprouting bulbs or bulb-like structures.  

Your question confuses me a bit.  Do you mean apple the fruit or apple 
the plant?  Apple trees are seed plants, and their seeds germinate like 
other seeds.   Apples, the tasty fruit, don't germinate; they do develop 
from an apple flower after pollination, and they do contain seeds.  If I 
haven't understood, then please contact us again to clarify your question.


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