What are the similarities and differences between the fruits of plants of the cereal and asteraceae families?
May 30, 2020 | Education
| 1) Similarities: they have dry, single-seed, non-opening fruits.
2) Differences: in cereals, the fruit is a caryopsis, and in Asteraceae, the achene.
3) In the caryopsis, the seed peel grows together with the pericarp, and in the achene the seed lies freely, the fruits may have crests, parachutes, trailers.
