Sentence examples for a decrease in seed from inspiring English sources

Although a nutritionally desirable fatty acid profile was achieved, the transgenic seeds exhibit reduction or abolition of seed germination in addition to a decrease in seed lipid content.

Generally there was a decrease in seed yield, total biomass, number of capitula per plant and plant height each growing season by withholding irrigation at various growth stages at all treatment combinations, especially when water deficit stress was imposed at the flowering stage.

If the amount of resources allocated to reproduction (K) is fixed, then an increase in seed mass (S) can only be achieved by a decrease in seed number (n = K/S).

This favors a decrease in seed production costs and an increase in seed quality.

The germination percentage of seeds of both species decreased with a decrease in seed MC (Fig.  1).

The presence of NO results in a decrease in seed oxygen consumption, reduced ATP availability and biosynthetic activity, while increasing oxygen availability reduces NO and increases metabolic activity.

We had previously characterized an EMS-induced mutant of Arabidopsis, designated AS11, which displayed a decrease in stored seed TAG, delayed seed development, and an altered fatty acid composition [ 6].

In the second part of our work we have demonstrated that decrease in efficiency of expansion could be markedly improved by culturing of BM-MMSC under moderate hypoxic conditions and substantial decrease in cell seeding density.

Although the total protein also increases in lines transformed with the silencing fragment 'go', this should be interpreted with caution, because the increase in total protein was associated with a decrease in thousand seed weight.

As expected for a major decrease in seed expressed FAD2 enzyme activity that results in an accumulation of oleic acid, the FAD2 reaction products linoleic acid and linolenic acid were dramatically reduced in the high oleic FAD2-1A and FAD2-1B homutantus mutant lines when either of the FAD2-1A mutations were present along with the FAD2-1B P137R or I143T alleles.

Early sowing led to a 6% decrease in seed yield of the semi-dwarf cultivar PR45 D03.