Fw: Wheat anatomy (fwd)

[Peter Stevens]

At 3:11 PM -0500 12/8/04, Pankaj Jaiswal wrote:
>
>If I am not wrong, the "beard" is a synonym for "awn".


I don't know much about grasses, but I thought the "beard" was a tuft 
of hairs at the base of the fruit; I have never heard of its 
synonymisation with awn.

>
>"crease is a particular type of morphological character found in 
>grains of Triticeae. I suggest creating a new term.
>
>Suggested lineage in PO
>	Seed
>	..[p]..crease
>definition: the indentation on the ventral side of the seed as found 
>in the members of Triticeae


I would make a plea for not using the positional term "ventral", 
simply because this is used in two very differet senses.  Dorsal and 
ventral used early in development  are equivalent to abaxial and 
adaxial and the more colloquial lower and upper.....  Could ventral 
be replaced by adaxial or abaxial as appropriate?

As to the pulvinus, I couldn't access the illustration for some 
reason, but it does sound a little weird.

P.