Seed size variability: from carob to carats
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Seed size variability: from carob to carats.
The seeds of various plants were used as weights because their mass reputedly varies so little. Carob (Ceratonia siliqua), which has given its name to the carat, is particularly famous in this regard. But are carob seeds unusually constant in weight and, if not, how did the myth arise? The variability of seeds sampled from a collection of carob trees (CV=23%) was close to the average of 63 spec...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biology Letters
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1744-9561,1744-957X
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0476