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What is a dehiscence?

What is a dehiscence? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (botany) Opening of an organ by its own means (such as an anther or a seed pod) to release its contents.
  2. (medicine) A rupture, as with a surgical wound opening up, often with a flow of serous fluid.
  3. (rare) Opening, gaping, in a general sense.
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Despite meticulous suturing, telescoping techniques, or covering the anastomosis with pedicles of vital tissues, dehiscence may still occur.
Studies on development of antheridia and antheridial dehiscence have been conducted by Davie and Hartman.
This indicates that similar mechanisms may trigger anther dehiscence in rice and two-rowed barley.
Pollen grain viability at the time of anther dehiscence and later stages was estimated using the fluorescein diacetate test.
I removed the anthers from a single flower on each marked branch before dehiscence and marked the base of the hypanthium with a spot of paint.
It appears that the dehiscent and indehiscent forms do not belong to separate species, rather dehiscence is segregating within populations.

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