Sentence examples for Reduce seed from inspiring English sources

Therefore, genes encoding Bsister MADS-box proteins are potentially useful in genetic engineering of crop plants to reduce seed coat thickness and condensed tannin content.

The Janzen Connell hypothesis states that tree diversity in tropical forests is maintained by specialist predators that are distance- or density-responsive (i.e. predators that reduce seed or seedling survival near adults of their hosts).

As gut retention time often correlates with dispersal distance, the fact that gut retention time per se does not reduce seed viability of these tropical tree species may have positive implications for their population dynamics and maintenance of genetic diversity.

Continuous management both in farmland (to reduce seed escape) and in remnant vegetation (to prevent the establishment of alien species) is necessary to protect native vegetation from biological invasion in agricultural landscapes.

ZnO nanoparticles reduce seed germination [19] and damage tissues [20] in hydroponically grown plants.

They generally enhance or reduce seed germination, shoot/root growth, biomass production and physiological and biochemical activities.

Many annual weeds are going to seed now and should be pulled to reduce seeding next year.

Vacuum biopsy techniques may reduce seeding potential.

The presence of metals (As, Cu, Pb and Zn) in sediments reduced seed germination by 80%.

Vertebrate exclusion cages (12 mm × 12 mm openings) strongly reduced seed predation rates.

Preliminary studies showed that there were reduced seed germination and plant growth after several months of storage in the EUE.