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The history of “embryology” dates back to the age-old tradition of Arabs and Assyrians of dusting the male inflorescence of the date palm on to the female palm to obtain a good supply of dates. This religious ceremony indicated some sort of sex-blending. But, until the experiments of Camerarius (1694), no attention was paid to sexuality in plants. The only efforts till then were of Grew (1682) who treated the stamens as the male organs (of flowers) which induced the ovary to produce the fruit.
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Johri, B.M., Ambegaokar, K.B., Srivastava, P.S. (1992). The Background. In: Comparative Embryology of Angiosperms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76395-3_1
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