*If you want to grow some tomatoes, just keep the seeds that are inside the ones you eat and plant them!* |
| tomato's cotyledon 40X |
When I planted a tomato seed and saw it growing, I decided to take a look at the cotyledon which is the first leaf to sprout out of a germinating seed (there may be multiple). Due to the lighting, the green color on the leaf is not shown as bright as it is supposed to. However, when I looked at it, I saw certain parts that seemed to be developing into a leaf. This is what first enables the germinating seed to start photosynthesis.
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| tomato's cotyledon 100X |
Below, the development of chloroplasts (area where photosynthesis takes place) is shown where they eventually cluster a cell, turning the leaf bright green.
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| tomato's cotyledon 400X |
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