Abscission (from Latin ab- 'away' and scindere 'to cut') is the shedding of various parts of an organism, such as a plant dropping a leaf, fruit, flower...
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lose all of their leaves for part of the year. This process is called abscission. In some cases leaf loss coincides with winter—namely in temperate or...
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ESCRT (section Membrane abscission)
cellular processes including multivesicular body (MVB) biogenesis, cellular abscission, and viral budding. Multivesicular body (MVB) biogenesis is a process...
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Cytokinesis (section Abscission)
process termed abscission, the last step of cytokinesis. The process of abscission physically cleaves the midbody into two. Abscission proceeds by removal...
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progress into abscission. The formation of abscission layer between the stem and the leaf petiole signifies the initiation of abscission. Abscission layer is...
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produce tumbleweeds. In Psoralea the tumbleweed detaches from the plant by abscission of the stem. In the Plantaginaceae, Plantago cretica forms tumbleweeds...
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stimulating or regulating the ripening of fruit, the opening of flowers, the abscission (or shedding) of leaves and, in aquatic and semi-aquatic species, promoting...
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Xerophyte (section Leaf wilting and abscission)
wilt due to water evaporation still exceeding water supply. Leaf loss (abscission) will be activated in more severe stress conditions. Drought deciduous...
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closure. It was so named because it was originally thought to control abscission. Ethylene is a gaseous hormone that is produced in all higher plant tissues...
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do not need added energy, they act passively. However, during the pre-abscission phase, the metabolic levels of a leaf are high. Plants also excrete some...
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