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    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...
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  • Dehiscence /dɪˈhɪsəns/ (from the Latin dehisco, meaning to gape, yawn, or split open) can refer to: Dehiscence (botany), the spontaneous opening at maturity...
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  • Operculum (section Botany)
    wasp Stenogastrinae Operculum (botany), various lids and flaps pertaining to plants, algae, and fungi Dehiscence (botany), the opening of a plant structure...
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    University, Retrieved on 2009, 05-16. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Catalpa. Catalpa speciosa images at bioimages.vanderbilt.edu Dehiscence (botany)...
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    Fruit (redirect from Fruit (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...
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    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...
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    and location of dehiscence (see Simpson Fig 9.41 and Hickey & King ). Loculicidal capsules possess longitudinal lines of dehiscence radially aligned...
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    separate by splitting the septa (septicidal dehiscence), or by spitting between them (loculicidal dehiscence), or the ovary may open in other ways, as through...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • Gall (redirect from Gall (botany))
    development: initiation, growth and differentiation, maturation, and dehiscence. Gall tissues are nutritive and present high concentrations of lipids...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Sesame (section Botany)
    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...
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    Silique (redirect from Siliqua (botany))
    open when ripe; these are usually called indehiscent siliques (compare dehiscence). Silicles of Lunaria annua – MHNT Capsella bursa-pastoris with silicles...
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  • the outside allow water to evaporate quickly under dry conditions. This dehiscence causes the cells to shrink and a contraction and straightening of the...
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    Theca (section Botany)
    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Stamen (redirect from Filament (botany))
    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...
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    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...
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    are cushion-shaped and arise in host tissue). Dehiscence happens in two ways. In schizolytic dehiscence, a double-dividing wall with a central lamella...
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    teeth, characters along with presence of an aril and introrse anther dehiscence that are sometimes used to split the family into three families, Salicaceae...
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  • "Hygrochastic capsule dehiscence supports safe site strategies in New Zealand alpine Veronica (Plantaginaceae)". Annals of Botany. 106 (3): 405–412. doi:10...
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    "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...
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    déhiscence et leurs ascospores: étude ultrastructurale" [The asci of Chorioactis geaster (Ascomycetes, Pezizales, Sarcoscyphaceae), their dehiscence and...
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    4–6 ovules. The fruit is a dry, dehiscent capsule with circumsessile dehiscence, ellipsoid, broadly ellipsoid, rhomboid, broadly rhomboid, ovoid or angular-ovoid...
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  • 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...
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    during development, in consequence, a spiral suture line called capsule dehiscence becomes evident by breaking down of the dextrorsely-arranged exothecial...
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