Cotton fibres are hair-like single-cells that elongate to several centimetres long after their initiation from the ovule epidermis at anthesis.

Present study is the primary report on transcriptome profiling of Kharchia Local flag leaf under long-term salinity stress at anthesis stage.

Anther development begins under the soil, and meiosis of pollen mother cells begins 3 weeks before anthesis, possibly during early April.

However, fruits and seeds were obtained even from flowers that had been covered for 3 days after anthesis, although at low frequency.

Arabidopsis CYP715A1 showed a restricted tissue-specific expression in the tapetum of flower buds and in the anther filaments upon anthesis.