Describe what happens in a flower from the time of pollination up to the time of seed and fruit development - KCSE Biology Essays

After pollination, the pollen grain absorbs nutrients from the stigma; and develops a pollen tube; it grows down the style to the embryosac; taking along the male nuclei;

The tube nuclei initiates and maintains pollen tube growth; while the generative nucleus divides by mitosis; to form two male gamete nuclei; which follow behind the tube nucleus as the pollen tube grows down the style; pollen tube enters the ovule through the micropyle; its tip bursts open; while the tube nucleus disintegrates; one of the male gamete nucleus fuses with the egg cell nucleus/oosphere/megaspore; to form the zygote; while the other fuses with the two polar nuclei; to form a triploid nucleus; called the primary endosperm nucleus;

After fertilization, the zygote undergoes repeated mitotic divisions; to form an embryo consisting of the plumule, radicle and seed leaves/cotyledons; primary endosperm nucleus divide repeatedly, become separated by membranes; to form an (semi-fluid nutritive) endosperm;

Ovary walls change into the pericarp; ovary changes/develops into a fruit; while ovules lose water and become seeds; the integuments; change into seed coats/testa; style/filaments/petals/sepals wither and fall off (or may persist);