Cereal Chem 55:773 - 778.  |  VIEW ARTICLE
Exploring Buffalo Gourd Seeds with Scanning Electron Microscopy.

M. Tu, C. W. Deyoe, and W. D. Eustace. Copyright 1978 by the American Association of Cereal Chemists, Inc. 

Scanning electron microscopy was used to study seed structure of a xerophilic buffalo gourd (Cucurbita foetidissima). By use of solvent extraction and trypsin treatment, protein bodies and oil-containing spherosomes were found to be two major organelles in the seed cotyledons.