Sentence examples for Dormancy from inspiring English sources

Though it ebbs and flows on an annual cycle which matches the growth and dormancy of the great forests of the northern hemisphere, it passed 400 parts per million this January, the earliest in the year it has exceeded this benchmark.

One of the causes of viral dormancy is that the T-cell the virus resides in is itself in a resting state.

Its dormancy since then however seems to have given the drug industry a chance to evolve and wise up.

Russia, another messy candidate for WTO membership, restarted talks with America, Canada and Europe this week after a period of dormancy in its seven-year-old application.

But many workers in the field think T-cell dormancy a more significant cause of relapse than HIV in such reservoir tissues.

For full treatment, see dormancy.

Other species, including a number of shrubs and annual plants, require the chemical signals from smoke and charred plant matter to break seed dormancy.

Embryo culture can also be used to circumvent seed dormancy.

In temperate-climate plants these buds have extended periods of dormancy, whereas in tropical plants the period of dormancy is either very short or nonexistent.

This dormant period is similar to hibernation in winter by temperate-area snakes, although little is known about physiological changes that may or may not take place in tropical dormancy.

There then follows a period of dormancy, sometimes prolonged, after which the seed germinates, and the adult form slowly emerges as the shoots and roots grow at the tips and the stem thickens.