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From: Induction of somatic embryos in cultures of Asparagus racemosus Willd: an endangered medicinally important plant

Fig. 2

Histology and SEM of somatic embryos. a L.S. of somatic embryo revealing a primary somatic embryo (pe) with shoot pole (sp) and root pole (rp). A secondary embryo (se) is arising from the body of the primary embryo. Note the coleoptile (cp) and scutellum (sc). (bar 0.42 mm). b, c SEM of somatic embryos. b globular embryos; note the distinct dome-like structures with smooth epidermal surface (c) bipolar embryo. Note the characteristic mesh-like epidermal surface (bar 30 μm, 200 μm, respectively)

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