Question

pls explain the underlined ....​

Answer 1

An epicotyl is important for the beginning stages of a plant's life. ... Epicotyls also form a hook during hypogeal germination. The epicotyl will expand and form the shoot apex and leaf primordia or "first true leaves", but the cotyledon will stay below the ground.Epicotyls also form a hook during hypogeal germination. The epicotyl will expand and form the shoot apex and leaf primordia or "first true leaves", but the cotyledon will stay below the ground. In plant physiology, the epicotyl is the embryonic shoot above the cotyledons.

Answer 2

epicotyl is the portion above the one coteledon I. e Scutellum in monocot from which the shoot system arises I.e stem . the undifferentiated tissue which surrounds the epicotyl is called the coleoptile..