Wild Arabidopsis seeds (IMAGE) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Caption The Martienssen lab crossed wild Arabidopsis seeds with various mutant strains. In some instances, as in the image on the left, only 10% of the plant ovules developed into seeds. However, in other cases, about 90% bore viable seeds. In one case (the third image from the left), 50% of the seeds didn’t make it. Credit Martienssen lab/Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Usage Restrictions Attribution required License Original content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.