Sentence examples for a range of defense from inspiring English sources

Bacteria and archaea possess a range of defense mechanisms to combat plasmids and viral infections.

PA Semi reportedly is already supplying its power-efficient chips to a range of defense contractors that balked when Apple signaled it would stop producing PA Semi's chips.

In general, plant metabolism is altered and a range of defense mechanisms are activated in response to abiotic stress, presumably to compensate for the changed environmental conditions (Wasti et al. [2012]).

Plants are continuously subjected to pathogen attack and respond by activating a range of defense mechanisms.

Insects possess a range of defense mechanisms to effectively combat invasion by microbial pathogens.

During infection, SA accumulates at the site of pathogen penetration, acting in the hypersensitivity reaction, and is also distributed to other parts of the plants as a mobile signal, as methyl salicylate, to induce a range of defense responses [ 3].

We lived with our last great nuclear nightmare -- that hurricane of intercontinental ballistic missiles from the Soviet Union -- for nearly half a century, and we kept our fears in check by employing a range of defenses that were none of them foolproof.

Adverse interactions between DNA and environmental toxins may be mitigated through a range of biologic defense mechanisms, including DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoint control and xenobiotic clearance enzymes.

Specific WRKY family members show enhanced expression and/or DNA-binding activity following induction by a range of pathogens, defense signals and wounding.

WRKY proteins are a family of transcription factors that are unique to plants specific WRKY family members show enhanced expression and/or DNA-binding activity following induction by a range of pathogens, defense signals, and wounding (reviewed in [ 36 ]).

Its founder, Bill Arnett, a white collector and curator in his seventies, had long argued, in the face of a range of institutional defenses and biases in New York and elsewhere, that the African-American artists he and others had found working in obscurity deserved serious consideration.