Dehiscence is the splitting of a mature plant structure along a built-in line of weakness to release its contents. This is common among fruits, anthers...

Dehiscence /dɪˈhɪsəns/ (from the Latin dehisco, meaning to gape, yawn, or split open) can refer to: Dehiscence (botany), the spontaneous opening at maturity...

wasp Stenogastrinae Operculum (botany), various lids and flaps pertaining to plants, algae, and fungi Dehiscence (botany), the opening of a plant structure...

University, Retrieved on 2009, 05-16. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Catalpa. Catalpa speciosa images at bioimages.vanderbilt.edu Dehiscence (botany)...

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering (see Fruit anatomy). Fruits are the...

1-6 small seeds. After about 8 weeks of growth, the fruit undergoes dehiscence (botany), which releases neutrally buoyant seeds into the water column. If...

and location of dehiscence (see Simpson Fig 9.41 and Hickey & King ). Loculicidal capsules possess longitudinal lines of dehiscence radially aligned...

separate by splitting the septa (septicidal dehiscence), or by spitting between them (loculicidal dehiscence), or the ovary may open in other ways, as through...

botanical terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to botany and plants in general. Terms of plant morphology are included here as well...

may split open and discharge their seeds to the winds, which is called dehiscence. Or the distribution process may rely upon the decay and degradation of...

development: initiation, growth and differentiation, maturation, and dehiscence. Gall tissues are nutritive and present high concentrations of lipids...

called explosive dehiscence or ballistochory. This reaction is where the name 'touch-me-not' comes from; in mature seed pods, dehiscence can easily be triggered...

the rest of the year before turning brown and woody, and loculicidal dehiscence reveals up to 2000 small winged seeds stacked tightly inside. The tiny...

of two apical pores, depending on the varietal cultivar. The degree of dehiscence is of importance in breeding for mechanised harvesting, as is the insertion...

open when ripe; these are usually called indehiscent siliques (compare dehiscence). Silicles of Lunaria annua – MHNT Capsella bursa-pastoris with silicles...

the outside allow water to evaporate quickly under dry conditions. This dehiscence causes the cells to shrink and a contraction and straightening of the...

microsporangia that are adjacent to each other and share a common area of dehiscence called the stomium. Any part of a microsporophyll that bears microsporangia...

Special Reference to the Tapetal Cell Wall.Furness & Rudall 2001 Annals of Botany, Volume 72, Issue 6, December 1993, Pages 595–605 Furness & Rudall 2001...

filaments glabrous or hairy from the base; capsule valves not twisting after dehiscence; seeds with a distinct tail at each end Pogonanthum: Scales incised; corolla...

bursts only when the seeds are completely ripe, a process called dehiscence. The dehiscence time tends to vary, so farmers cut plants by hand and place them...

connate (fused or joined in the same whorl) as follows: extrorse: anther dehiscence directed away from the centre of the flower. Cf. introrse, directed inwards...

Tachyspory is a form of dehiscence where seed is rapidly released from a cone or fruit upon maturity, as opposed to bradyspory, the gradual release of...

are cushion-shaped and arise in host tissue). Dehiscence happens in two ways. In schizolytic dehiscence, a double-dividing wall with a central lamella...

teeth, characters along with presence of an aril and introrse anther dehiscence that are sometimes used to split the family into three families, Salicaceae...

"Hygrochastic capsule dehiscence supports safe site strategies in New Zealand alpine Veronica (Plantaginaceae)". Annals of Botany. 106 (3): 405–412. doi:10...

"impatient") and the common name "touch-me-not" refer to the explosive dehiscence of the seed capsules. The mature capsules burst, sending seeds up to several...

déhiscence et leurs ascospores: étude ultrastructurale" [The asci of Chorioactis geaster (Ascomycetes, Pezizales, Sarcoscyphaceae), their dehiscence and...

4–6 ovules. The fruit is a dry, dehiscent capsule with circumsessile dehiscence, ellipsoid, broadly ellipsoid, rhomboid, broadly rhomboid, ovoid or angular-ovoid...

or tear in various parts of the body Fissure (botany), a split or crack; a line or opening of dehiscence. Fissure (dentistry), a break in the tooth enamel...

during development, in consequence, a spiral suture line called capsule dehiscence becomes evident by breaking down of the dextrorsely-arranged exothecial...