HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -In botany, seed is an undeveloped plant embryo and food reserve enclosed in a protective outer covering called a seed coat (testa). More generally, the term “seed” means anything that can be sown, which may include seed and husk or tuber.

Detailed explanation-2: -The seed has two layers. The outer layer is called testa and inner layer is called tegmen.

Detailed explanation-3: -A seedling is a young plant or sporophyte developing out of a plant embryo from a seed. Seedling development starts with germination of the seed. A typical young seedling consists of three main parts: the radicle (embryonic root), the hypocotyl (embryonic shoot), and the cotyledons (seed leaves).

Detailed explanation-4: -seed development … form the seed coat (testa). The product is a structure in which the embryo is protected from temperature extremes by its state of desiccation and is often guarded from further drying and from mechanical or biological degradation by the seed coats.