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Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants
Flower and Pollination
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- Meaning of anthesis
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2004 AIPMT 1 question
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Anthesis is a phenomenon which refers to -Anthesis is the opening of a flower bud, when the flower becomes fully open and functional.
At anthesis the anthers usually dehisce and the stigma becomes receptive, so pollination can take place.
Formation of pollen is microsporogenesis; development of the anther is a part of flower development; reception of pollen by the stigma is pollination.
So anthesis refers to the opening of the flower bud.