Study on embryo development and somatic embryogenesis of jujube

The results of embryological observation on embryo development in the thirteen cultivars of jujube indicated that they shared the same experience from proembryo to globular embryo, heart-shaped embryo, torpedo-shaped embryo and cotyledon stage embryo. Embryo began aborting from globular or heart-shaped embryo period in most of cultivars of jujube, but in few of them embryo could keep synchronous developing to cotyledon stage embryo. And the courses of embryo development were not synchronous.