cone

Also known as Conifer cones, Strobilus, conifer cone, Plant Cone, pinecone, strobilus, strobile

seed-bearing organ on gymnosperm plants

AI overview

A cone is a seed-bearing structure found on gymnosperm plants like pine trees and firs, where seeds develop between overlapping scales. Cones matter because they're how these plants reproduce and spread their seeds, making them essential to the life cycle of many important tree species.

AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.

Research

73,864 papers

Cone visual pigments.ReviewBiochimica et biophysica acta · 2014Imamoto Y, Shichida YDOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2013.08.009
Mechanism of Cone Degeneration in Retinitis Pigmentosa.ReviewCellular and molecular neurobiology · 2023Song DJ, Bao XL, Fan B et al.DOI: 10.1007/s10571-022-01243-2
Maintaining Cone Function in Rod-Cone Dystrophies.ReviewAdvances in experimental medicine and biology · 2018Sahel JA, Léveillard TDOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75402-4_62
Structure of cone photoreceptors.ReviewProgress in retinal and eye research · 2009Mustafi D, Engel AH, Palczewski KDOI: 10.1016/j.preteyeres.2009.05.003
Understanding Cone Photoreceptor Cell Death in Achromatopsia.ReviewAdvances in experimental medicine and biology · 2016Carvalho LS, Vandenberghe LHDOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-17121-0_31
Cone Photoreceptor Loss in Light-Damaged Albino Rats.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Benthal MC, McKeown AS, Kraft TWDOI: 10.3390/ijms23073978
Molecular Mechanisms Governing Sight Loss in Inherited Cone Disorders.ReviewGenes · 2024Brotherton C, Megaw RDOI: 10.3390/genes15060727
Induction of Rod and Cone Photoreceptor-Specific Progenitors from Stem Cells.ReviewAdvances in experimental medicine and biology · 2019Ballios BG, Khalili S, Shoichet MS et al.DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-27378-1_90

via PubMed

Wikidata facts

Image: Araucaria (La Mer de sable) cone.jpg

Show 1 more fact

Commons category: Conifer cones

Sources (5)

via Wikidata · CC0

~14 min read

Article

A mature female big-cone pine (Pinus coulteri) cone, the heaviest pine cone

A conifer cone, or in formal botanical usage a strobilus, pl.: strobili, is a seed-bearing organ on gymnosperm plants, especially in conifers and cycads. They are usually woody and variously conic, cylindrical, ovoid, to globular, and have scales and bracts arranged around a central axis, but can be fleshy and berry-like. The cones of Pinophyta (conifer clade) contain the reproductive structures. The woody cone is the female cone, which produces seeds. The male cone, which produces pollen, is usually ephemeral and much less conspicuous even at full maturity. The name 'cone' derives from Greek konos (pine cone), which also gave name to the geometric cone. The individual plates of a cone are known as scales. In conifers where the cone develops over more than one year (such as pines), the first year's growth of a seed scale on the cone, showing up as a protuberance at the end of the two-year-old scale, is called an umbo, while the second year's growth is called the apophysis.