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What is an anther?

What is an anther? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (botany) The pollen-bearing part of the stamen of a flower.
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The whole perianth was colored, the anther dehiscence was extrorse, the stigma was subulate, and the perianth was hexamerous.
Asexual embryogenesis and plantlet development in anther cultures of Cucumis sativus L. have been reported.
The stigmas were then pollinated with pollen from a flower whose anther had dehisced that day.
In the experiments in Table 1, pricking of an anther and the ovary induced dehiscence whereas cutting or piercing of the glumes did not.
In the flowers, corolla, corona and anther structure are similar, but the shape of the pollen tetrads in the two genera is different.
Females produced more pollen per anther than males, and pollen size was the same in both sexes.

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