Abscission (from Latin ab- 'away', and scindere 'to cut') is the shedding of various parts of an organism, such as a plant dropping a leaf, fruit, flower...

lose all of their leaves for part of the year. This process is called abscission. In some cases leaf loss coincides with winter—namely in temperate or...

process termed abscission, the last step of cytokinesis. The process of abscission physically cleaves the midbody into two. Abscission proceeds by removal...

cellular processes including multivesicular body (MVB) biogenesis, cellular abscission, and viral budding. Multivesicular body (MVB) biogenesis is a process...

progress into abscission. The formation of abscission layer between the stem and the leaf petiole signifies the initiation of abscission. Abscission layer is...

wilt due to water evaporation still exceeding water supply. Leaf loss (abscission) will be activated in more severe stress conditions. Drought deciduous...

produce tumbleweeds. In Psoralea the tumbleweed detaches from the plant by abscission of the stem. In the Plantaginaceae, Plantago cretica forms tumbleweeds...

stimulating or regulating the ripening of fruit, the opening of flowers, the abscission (or shedding) of leaves and, in aquatic and semi-aquatic species, promoting...

closure. It was so named because it was originally thought to control abscission. Ethylene is a gaseous hormone that is produced in all higher plant tissues...

do not need added energy, they act passively. However, during the pre-abscission phase, the metabolic levels of a leaf are high. Plants also excrete some...

buds on the twig are an important diagnostic characteristic, as are the abscission scars where the leaves have fallen away. The color, texture, and patterning...

may or may not involve the loss of a structure through the process of abscission. The lost structures are said to be caducous. Manipulation of dehiscence...

of regular leaf shedding by deciduous trees. As in leaf shedding, an abscission layer forms, and the branch is shed cleanly. Cladoptosis is thought to...

growth stage, foliar abscission (active shedding) of the appendages occurs from the stigmarian axis. Nonetheless, root abscission is relatively absent...

completing the final stages of cytokinesis, a process called abscission. During symmetric abscission, the midbody is severed at each end and released into the...

approximately three weeks before the album's release.[citation needed] Abscission Apocatastasis Epiclesis Paraclete Phosphene Freeman, Phil. "Paracletus...

in some species. [citation needed] Auxin inhibits abscission prior to the formation of the abscission layer, and thus inhibits senescence of leaves. Synthetic...

2000). "A causal role for ethylene and endo-beta-1,4-glucanase in the abscission of red-raspberry (Rubus idaeus) drupelets". Physiologia Plantarum. 110...

veins carrying the sap slowly close until a layer of cells called the abscission layer completely closes off the vein allowing the tree to rid itself of...

Acer palmatum var. 'Kiyohime' as bonsai during fall abscission. This dwarf hybrid cultivar is prized for its small leaves and bright red fall colors....

mature trees may exhibit marcescence—where leaves wither with autumn but abscission (leafdrop) is delayed until spring. The smooth, gray trunk and larger...

dying for the inclement season). This mechanism to shed leaves is called abscission. When the leaf is shed, it leaves a leaf scar on the twig. In cold autumns...

the fruit matures, the hull splits and separates from the shell, and an abscission layer forms between the stem and the fruit so that the fruit can fall...

structure or organ. abscission Natural shedding of an organ that is mature or aged, as of a ripe fruit or an old leaf. abscission zone Specialized layer...

when touched, or blown by the wind, because during ripening a series of abscission layers forms that divides the rachis into short segments, each attached...

lamella is degraded by enzymes, as happens during fruit ripening and abscission, the adjacent cells will separate. Cell wall Plasma membrane Sofradžija...

(Caelifera) A cicada moulting Moult of a Tiliqua rugosa lizard, 5 cm scale bar Abscission (Shedding, more general) "Moult - Definition in the English-French Dictionary...

Westernlore Publications. Abeles, F. B. and Gahagan, H. E. III (1968). "Abscission: The Role of Ethylene, Ethylene Analogues, Carbon Dioxide, and Oxygen"...

process of plant domestication has produced changes in shattering/fruit abscission, shorter height, larger grain or fruit size, easier threshing, synchronous...

expand during the dry season when sunlight is at a maximum, then undergo abscission in the cloudy wet season. These changes provide a balance of carbon between...