(n.) The pistils of a flower, taken collectively. See Illust. of Carpophore.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sequential marking experiments combined with histological and morphological examination indicate that growth of the gynoecium in Lilium longiflorum Thunb.
(2) Petals develop in the third floral whorl rather than the normal stamens, and the cells that would normally develop into the fourth whorl gynoecium behave as if they constituted an ag flower primordium.
(3) This includes the gynoecium, which commences growth as an open-ended tube during stage 6.
(4) Comparison of surface growth patterns and differentiation events in the gynoecium to those previously described in the tepal and another demonstrates the triphasic nature of growth in the whole lily flower.
(5) In Phase III (100-135 mm), the ovary ceases growth and the maximal growth zone of the gynoecium migrates from the proximal to the distal end of the style.
(6) In wildtype Arabidopsis, postgenital fusion takes place exclusively in the gynoecium, whereas in the fiddlehead mutant, this program becomes expressed constitutively.
(7) Phase I (gynoecia less than 10 mm in length) is characterized by spatial and temporal variation in local relative growth rate and mitotic index throughout the entire gynoecium.
(8) The AGAMOUS mutations, ag-2 and ag-3, affect the third and fourth whorls and cause petals to develop instead of stamens and another flower to arise in place of the gynoecium.
(9) The maize gynoecium develops from a primordium comprising two distinct cell lineages: an epidermal LI and a subepidermal LII lineage.
(10) In addition, two of these mutations (ap2-1 and pi-1) result in loss of organs, and ag-1 causes the cells that would ordinarily form the gynoecium to differentiate as a flower.