Sentence examples for a defensive effect from inspiring English sources

Though ISR is mainly elicited by and effective against pathogens, further biotic agents such as leaf-chewing herbivores, leaf miners, aphids and even non-pathogenic root-colonising bacteria can induce systemic pathogen resistance, while some ISR traits can have a defensive effect against herbivores.

The lack of any defensive effect of EBF in this study might be due to the fact that natural enemy attack on individual aphids leads to a pulsed emission, but the transgenic lines tested continuously produce EBF to which aphids may become habituated.

C. xanthorrhiza leaf extract had a greater reduction of MDA level showing a high defensive effect against gastrointestinal damage.

The defensive effect of ants is so conspicuous that there is a long history of using these animals as biocontrol agents (Heil 2008) and there are now numerous studies that report plant protection by ants in a wide range of habitats, from temperate to tropical environments (reviewed in Heil and McKey 2003; Rico-Grey and Oliveira 2007).

And it could have some defensive effect".

Finally the increase in HIF1α at both protein and gene level confirmed the defensive effect of the additives in hypoxia.

The addition of small molecules showed profound defensive effect on ICAs under hypoxic environment as evidenced by their viability and insulin secretion compared to untreated ICAs.

Forced to go to his bench, head coach Jim Boeheim relied heavily on C.J. Fair and freshman Rakeem Christmas, both excellent athletes, but neither have the same defensive effect.

The defensive effect of endogenous trypsin proteinase inhibitors (NaTPIs) on the herbivore Manduca sexta was demonstrated by genetically altering NaTPI production in M. sexta's host plant, Nicotiana attenuata.

Their approach is laudable; however, it did not consider the defensive effect trust might have on slippery slope fears.

The half volley is a shot played on a very short bounce, usually a defensive stroke effected when one cannot quite reach an opponent's shot in the air and volley it.