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a·chene

(ă-kēn')
A small one-seeded fruit.
[G. a- priv., + chainō, to yawn]

achene

a small, dry, INDEHISCENT, one-seeded fruit with a thin PERICARP seen, for example, on the surface of strawberry ‘fruits’. See Fig. 7 .
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2, with slightly larger leaves, 3-5 leaflets per leaf, leaflets broadly lanceolate, and with larger achenes (5.
Models of Cannabis Taxonomy, Cultural Bias, and Conflicts between Scientific and Vernacular Names
The weather (mainly the temperature and precipitation during the achene filling period) affected the linoleic acid content of hybrids.
THE IMPACT OF CROP YEAR AND A FEW AGROTECHNICAL ELEMENTS ON THE FATTY ACID COMPOSITION OF LO AND HO SUNFLOWER (HELIANTHUS ANNUUS L.) OIL
Germination time differs among achene types, usually occurring with rainy weather in April, May, or June, though it has been documented as early as February.
Seed morphometrics and adaptive geographic differentiation
When the rachilla is not articulate, usually each achene falls singly like its glume, detaching from the base to the spikelet apex (Cyperus s.
Spikelet structure in Cypereae (Cyperoideae-Cyperaceae)
Drought stress showed significant decrease in achene oil content and this decrease was further pronounced when drought employed at flower initiation than at bud initiation.
ABSCISIC ACID MEDIATED BIOCHEMICAL CHANGES IN SUNFLOWER (HELIANTHUS ANNUUS L.) GROWN UNDER DROUGHT AND WELL-WATERED FIELD CONDITIONS
In case of sulphur doses, 30 kg/ha elemental sulphur produced maximum thousand achene weight (53.
Growth and yield response of sunflower (Helianthus annum L.) to sulphur and boron application
5) mm long, globose to ovoid, with obtuse, apiculate apex, conspicuously pitted, white or gray, with tufts or lines of minute, yellowish to purplish hairs; hypogynium distinctly 3-lobed, the lobes oblong to lanceolate, apex obtuse to subacute, appressed to achene base.
A review of the genus Scleria (Cyperaceae) in Illinois
cordillerana are unclear and the species can not be placed into any one of the subgenera of Eleocharis recognized by Gonzalez-Elizondo and Peterson (1997), The glossy surface of the achenes and the floral scales that fall before the achenes remind of those in Eleocharis uniflora Seberg, another species of uncertain affinities originally described into a separate genus (as Chillania pusilla Roiv.
Eleocharis Cordillerana (Cyperaceae), a new species from Southern Chile
Perianth bristles usually 6, subequal, most of them well exceeding the middle of the achene body .
Rediscovery of Fuirena repens (Cyperaceae), a rare endemic of the Mexican High Plateau
THE ACHENES (seeds) of cultivated or common sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.
Quantitative trait loci for genetically correlated seed traits are tightly linked to branching and pericarp pigment loci in sunflower
validus which has a similar achene grows in similar habitats.
An illustrated catalogue of macroscopic subfossils from late-Pleistocene and Holocene westland deposits in northern Indiana
In 2011 and 2012, achene fruit-like seeds were harvested under glasshouse conditions from plants cultivated in 20-L black plastic pots.
Stevia rebaudiana (Bert) Bertoni: influence of osmotic stress and seed priming on seed germination under laboratory conditions/Stevia rebaudiana (Bert) Bertoni: influencia do estresse osmotico e do "priming" na germinacao das sementes em condicoes de laboratorio

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