Cereal Chem 49:23 - 25.  |  VIEW ARTICLE
Scanning Electron Microscopy of the Buckwheat Kernel.

Y. Pomeranz and I. B. Sachs. Copyright 1972 by the American Association of Cereal Chemists, Inc. 

The detailed structures of the pericarp, spermoderm, aleurone layer, and starchy endosperm of the buckwheat achene were studied by scanning electron microscopy. The presence of fungi on the surface of the spermoderm is illustrated. Similarities between the structure of buckwheat and of cereal grains are discussed.