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Q. The mature seeds of plants such as gram and peas, possess no endosperm, because

Morphology of Flowering Plants

Solution:

Majority of dicot seeds (e.g., pea, gram, bean, mustard, groundnut) and a few monocot seeds (e.g., orchids, Sagittaria), are called nonendospermic or exalbuminous seeds because the endosperm is consumed during seed development and the food is stored in cotyledons and other regions.