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dehiscent

[di′his·ənt]
(botany)
Becoming open at maturity to release seeds, as certain fruits.
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Fruits mature in a short period and dehisce along the septa to disperse seeds for which dry conditions are essential.
Entomophily, ornithophily and anemochory in the highly self-incompatible Boswellia ovalifoliolata Bal. & Henry (Burseraceae), an endemic and endangered medicinal tree species
Once the scutella are yellow or brown, they may dehisce. When a raindrop hits the cup-shaped surface of the scutellum it inverts and falls off the scale and the mechanical force of this event causes the scale to throw the mature fruits.
Hydroballochory in two Texas species of skullcap (Scutellaria Drummodii, S. Wrightii; Lamiaceae)
The anthers dehisce by longitudinal slits one hr after flower opening.
Morfologia del polen de cuatro especies de Jatropha (Euphorbiaceae), incluyendo variedades toxicas, en el noroeste de Mexico
Maturation is reached by August, and the weevils disperse when pods dehisce or fragment.
The varying phenology and growth patterns of Baptisia bracteata (Fabaceae) in reconstructed Prairie
The anthers dehisce during mature bud stage by longitudinal slits.
Psychophily and anemochory in Wendlandia tinctoria (Roxb.) DC. (Rubiaceae): a dry season blooming tree species in the dry deciduous Southern Eastern Ghats forest, Andhra Pradesh, India
However, they still can dehisce postoperatively to a life-threatening extent.
Development of abdominal wound dehiscence after a colectomy: a nursing challenge
1B) dehisce explosively (Witztum & Schulgasser, 1995), while infested capsules do not dehisce at all.
Biological notes on Melanagromyza ruelliae (Diptera: Agromyzidae), a seed feeder on the invasive Mexican petunia, Ruellia tweediana (Acanthaceae)
It was released on her own self-funded Dehisce label.
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"There's no way to get a good handle on who's going to dehisce and who's not, so all comers need to be informed a priori of the potential," he said.
Discuss rupture risk with myomectomy patients. (Uterine Rupture in Pregnancy)
All mature fruits were collected as they began to dehisce. This occurred on 17 July at Vine, and on 12 August at Cincinnati.
POLLEN-MEDIATED SELECTIVE ABORTION IN YUCCAS AND ITS CONSEQUENCES FOR THE PLANT-POLLINATOR MUTUALISM
Although some stems produced seed capsules, none were observed to dehisce. Stem borers girdled the upper part of 80% of the nonflowering and 98% of the flowering stems in the transect.
Long term outcomes of population suppression of leafy spurge by insects in the mountain foothills of Northern Utah
But unfortunately, our findings were not different from those observed in earlier studies (Agrawal and Manisha, 2007), where it suppressed auto-spore mother cells to dehisce (the ratio of auto-spore mother cells to vegetative cells increased).
Replacement of Expensive Pure Nutritive Media with Low Cost Commercial Fertilizers for Mass Culture of Freshwater Algae, Chlorella vulgaris

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