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Endocarp
Endocarp meaning
The woody inner layer of the pericarp of some fruits that contains the seed: the tissue (uncountable) or the structure that it composes (countable).
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Comparative transcripts profiling of fruit mesocarp and endocarp relevant to secondary metabolism by suppression subtractive hybridization in Azadirachta indica (neem).
Different groups of plants have other modifications, the so-called stone fruits (such as the peach ) have a hardened fruit layer (the endocarp) fused to and surrounding the actual seed.
The innermost layer of the pericarp is the endocarp.
The white, hard inner shell (endocarp) of the fruit encloses one, rarely two or three, elongated seeds (kernels) having a brown seed coat.
This passage through the digestive tract can reduce the thickness of the endocarp, and thus can aid in germination rates.