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What is an awn?

What is an awn? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista.
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They also report the absence of periclinal cell divisions at the base of the mutant awn.
The first glume is rigidly coriaceous, gradually narrowed from a villous base to an erect scabrid awn, 1-nerved.
It requires scrutiny in regard to Agrostis, which also has no awn or basal hairs.
When atmospheric humidity changes again and the awn untwists, the spikelet is held in the ground by the callus hairs.
In this case, the phenotypic description included the measurements of the length of the awn considering those of the more distal spikelets of the ear.
The B genes act as awn inhibitors, A acts as awn promotors, b 1 a leads to half awned condition and Hd gives hooded condition.

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