Abstract: The ferflization and its embryo fonnation of different types of embryo sacs were studied by using the technology of GMA half-section in the APIV strain of polyembryonic rice ( Oryza sativa L. ). In rare cases,all three egg cells in the embryo sac of 5-2-1 type could fertilize and develop into three embryos. But in most cases only one or two egg cells fertilized and developed into one or two embryos in the respective type of embryo sac. The frequency of poly-egg fertilization in total all was very low in the embryo sac of 6-2-0 type and 5-3-0 type. These results indicated that the polyembryos in APIV originated mainly from overall fertilization and develotment of the embryo sac with poly-egg apparatus. This was observed,for example, in 5-2-1 type in which three embryos were fertilized and developed from three egg cells and two embryos from two egg cells. The fertlization process of double set of embryo sac was most complicated, all often abnormal. Only in few ovaries the egg cells in both large and small embeyo sac could fertilize simultaneously. The fertilization and development of egg cells in the large embryo sac might be the main cause of the formation of the so called "mid-seated embryo" (the embryo far from the micropyle end).

Key words: Rice, Polyembryony, Embryology, Fertilization, Polyembryonic dee strain APIV