Lecture # 13- Fruits and Seeds p. 86-98

1. Fruit- a ripened ovary
   1. Develops from ovary wall or Pericarp
      1. Exocarp, Mesocarp, Endocarp
2. Types of Fruits
   1. Berry-entire Pericarp is soft and fleshy-tomato
   2. Drupe- endocarp hard and stony, outer layers fleshy-peach
   3. Capsule-dry at maturity splits open on several seams-poppy
   4. Legume- dry at maturity splits open on two seams- pea, bean
   5. Grain-dry at maturity, single seed ovary wall fused to seed-corn
   6. Aggregate fruit- develops from many ovaries in one flower- raspberry
   7. Multiple fruit- develops from fusion of many flowers- pineapple
   8. Accessory fruit- edible part is tissue other than ovary wall- apple
3. Seeds
   1. Well formed embryo
   2. Nutritive tissue to support embryo
   3. Protective Coat
   4. Modifications for dispersal
   5. Seed anatomy
      1. dicot vs monocot
4. Seed dispersal mechanisms