What's the difference between anther and stamen?

Anther


Definition:

  • (n.) That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The spatial distribution of transcripts in the anther wall was confined to that region of the anther that surrounds the locule.
  • (2) Two hundred and twenty-six patients were scratch tested over a 10-month period with the pollen and anthers of six common hay fever plants.
  • (3) Houston bring on Weaver for Bruin (who has cut a rather lonely figure up front, all alone) 3.38am GMT 72 mins SKC win anther corner and Zusi puts it into the right area but again it's met by a Houston head.
  • (4) mRNA levels for these cDNA clones were markedly reduced in the anthers of several independent male-sterile mutants of tomato.
  • (5) Particulate fractions from mature rape anther tissue catalysed the incorporation of glucose from UDPglucose into endogenous lipids.
  • (6) In the blind mutant, whose flower limbs are transformed into antheroid structures on top of normal tubes, identical expression levels of both genes were observed in the antheroid structures as in normal anthers.
  • (7) The tissue localization of transcripts corresponding to five anther-specific cDNA clones isolated from tomato was determined.
  • (8) Rice (Oryza sativa L., 2n=24) anthers containing microspores in the early-uninucleate to first-mitosis stages were induced successfully to develop into plants in vitro through an intermediary step of callus formation.
  • (9) We traced the patterns of cell division during maize anther development by inducing sector boundaries that preceded the earliest events of anther initiation.
  • (10) Furthermore, the absence of immunoreactive CHI was demonstrated in a mutant of P. hybrida (genotype popo) which accumulates 2',4,4',6'-tetrahydroxy-chalcone in anthers as a consequence of lack of enzyme activity.
  • (11) The strong correlation between cell lineage and cell fate in the maize anther has implications for studies on plant evolution and the genetic improvement of cereals by DNA transformation.
  • (12) A total of 19 independent cDNAs have been isolated by differential screening whose temporal expression patterns overlap and which together cover the stages of anther development from pre-meiotic microsporocytes to tri-nucleate pollen grains.
  • (13) In anthers, expression was detected at an earlier stage of flower development with GUS activity restricted to the tapetal cell layer.
  • (14) With both constructs, the appearance of GUS activity in developing anthers was correlated with the onset of microspore mitosis and increased progressively until anthesis (pollen shed).
  • (15) This promoter construct was subsequently used to drive an antisense chs gene in transgenic petunia, which led to the inhibition of pigment synthesis in anthers of five of 35 transformants.
  • (16) Ultra-thin sections of vegetative tissues from birch (anthers and leaves) were labeled for pollen antigens and allergens using a commercial rabbit IgG antibody preparation directed against birch pollen antigens and allergens.
  • (17) At flower maturity, transcripts specified by each of the cDNAs were also detected in the epidermal and endothecial cell layers of the anther wall.
  • (18) In petunia, the gene Po regulates the expression of CHI in anthers: PoPo petunia lines contain CHI enzyme activity in petals and anthers, whereas popo lines contain the CHI enzyme only in petals but not in anthers.
  • (19) In flowers, expression was observed in sepals, anthers, and carpels, but not in petals.
  • (20) Transgenic plants with white anthers were male sterile due to an arrest in male gametophyte development.

Stamen


Definition:

  • (n.) A thread; especially, a warp thread.
  • (n.) The male organ of flowers for secreting and furnishing the pollen or fecundating dust. It consists of the anther and filament.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Differential screening of a tomato cDNA library produced from pre-anthesis stamens resulted in the isolation of 25 cDNA clones that hybridized to probes made from stamen RNA and showed no hybridization to probes made from RNA of vegetative organs.
  • (2) In agamous-1, stamens to petals; in apetala2-1, sepals to leaves and petals to staminoid petals; in apetala3-1, petals to sepals and stamens to carpels; in pistillata-1, petals to sepals.
  • (3) Cells from immature stamen hairs of the spiderwort plant Tradescantia virginiana cv.
  • (4) Normal stamens exhibited the synthesis of many polypeptides not found in the mutant, from microspore mother cell to the preanthesis stages.
  • (5) In the families of flowering plants in which these organs occur, they are patterned with the sepals in the outermost whorl or whorls of the flower, with the petals next closest to the center, the stamens even closer to the center, and the carpels central.
  • (6) The normally predictable duration of metaphase in stamen hair cells from the spiderwort, Tradescantia virginiana, is shortened significantly by treatment during prometaphase with either ruthenium red or Bay K-8644.
  • (7) Anaphase in dividing guard mother cells of Allium cepa and stamen hair cells of Tradescantia virginiana consists almost entirely of chromosome-to-pole motion, or anaphase A.
  • (8) A model is presented which proposes both combinatorial and cross-regulatory interactions between the DEFA and GLO genes during petal and stamen organogenesis in the second and third whorls of the flower.
  • (9) In a search for putative target genes of deficiens, several stamen- and petal-specific genes were cloned that are expressed in wild type but not in the deficiensglobifera mutant.
  • (10) 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.
  • (11) Another beta-tubulin isotype, beta 4, appears in marked abundance in immature and mature stamens.
  • (12) Squa transcriptional activity persists through later stages of floral morphogenesis, with the exception of stamen differentiation.
  • (13) In that section of the bay visibly contaminated by the creek effluent, increases in stamen hair mutants, micronuclei, and chromosome aberrations were measured.
  • (14) Stamen hair cells from the spiderwort plant, Tradescantia virginiana, exhibit remarkably predictable metaphase transit times, making them uniquely suitable for temporal studies on mitotic regulation.
  • (15) Another experimental disruption of the relationship, accomplished by making minute wounds in the PPB site of mitotic cells in Tradescantia stamen hairs, is described.
  • (16) Quite simply, the bee gets covered in pollen, from the male part of the flower (the stamen), and deposit the grains on the female part (the stigma) of the next flower that they visit.
  • (17) The normal and mutant stamens had some common proteins, but certain proteins were either present or more enriched in one genotype than in the other.
  • (18) We describe a locus, SUPERMAN, mutations in which result in extra stamens developing at the expense of the central carpels in the Arabidopsis thaliana flower.
  • (19) In order to test whether this influences the initial, linear component in the dose-effect relations, a comparison was made between dose-response curves for pink somatic mutations in Tradescantia clone 02 stamen hairs following X and gamma irradiations.
  • (20) During stage 6, petal primordia grow slowly, whereas stamen primordia enlarge more rapidly.