On Certain Aspects of the Development of the Leaf of Cocos Nucifera L.
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1957-12
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The mode of formation of the leaflets in the coconut palm has been described. Here the leaflets are formed mainly by splitting, The splits occur along predetermined lines at a very early stage of the blade long before the vascular bundles are formed. The unfolding of the leaflets from the rachis is effected mainly by the enlargement of a cushion of tissue located in the inner angle made by the leaflet with the rachis. The halves of the leaflets open out by a row of motor-like cells located along the length of the blade near the midrib and in the grooves of the dorsal folds of the leaflets. . The reins and the terminal whip are the remnants of undifferentiated leaf tissue. The ' Coiffe ' is only a secondary tissue developed from epidermal cells. The author's thanks are due to Professor V. Puri, Meerut College, Meerut; Professor A. S. Foster, University of California, U.S.A.; Professor B. Appala Naidu, & Mr T. Lohidas, Agricultural College, Bapatla, for the valuable comments and -suggestions made in the course of the preparation of the paper. Thanks are also due to Professor P. Maheshwari, University of Delhi, for the encouragement and the interest evinced in the publication of the paper.
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Phytomorphology, December 1957, Vol.7 No.3,4, p. 297-305