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In general, each seed bears af embryo, but sometimes there are found more than one embryo in a single seed. The occurrence of more than one embryo in a seed is called polyembryony. It was observed for the first time in orange seeds by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek in 1719.
On a broad basis, polyembryony is of two types
(i) Spontaneous polyembryony that occurs naturally.
(ii) Induced polyembryony that occurs induced experimentally.
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