The phrase "ag plant" is not correct in standard written English and does not convey a clear meaning.
It may be used in specific contexts, such as in technical jargon or industry-specific language, but it is not widely recognized.
Example: "The ag plant in our region specializes in sustainable agriculture practices."
Alternatives: "agricultural facility" or "agriculture plant".
We therefore assumed that P. macrostachya was a representative AG plant central to the AG mutualism, and used freshly collected mature P. macrostachya seeds in all seed removal experiments described below.
Seed extracts of three AG plant species, A. gracile, C. uleana, and P. macrostachya, were subjected to seed-carrying assays in the field in 2004 and 2005.
Although AG plant species share a common interaction with mutualist ants, these results suggest that the different plant species elicit seed-carrying with different chemical cues.
No common compounds were detected among AG seed extracts, suggesting that as we also conclude for Neotropical AGs the taxonomically diverse Southeast Asian AG plant species rely upon different compounds to elicit retrieval by ants [43].
Here we examine the specificity of the ant-seed interaction by comparing the ant community observed at general food baits to ants attracted to and removing seeds of the AG plant Peperomia macrostachya.
Here, we distinguish among these alternatives by comparing the community of ants that could potentially interact with seeds (i.e., ground-foraging species detected at general food baits) to those actually visiting and removing seeds of the abundant AG plant Peperomia macrostachya (Vahl).
C. femoratus did not carry seeds of non-AG congeners of AG plants [5, EY pers. obs.].
The typical level of Ag in plant tissue is <1 ppm [25].
Building upon the conserved core components of the RNA silencing machinery such as DCLs and AGOs, plants have evolved extensive variants of these components, especially AGOs.
AG, a plant-specific transcription factor, is activated by WUSCHEL in the presence of LEAFY (LFY) to generate the stamen primordium (Lenhard et al. 2001; Ikeda et al. 2009).
The inhibitory effect of Ag NPs on plant pathogen, F. oxysporum, during the plant growth was evaluated by DAT.
