Sentence examples for amount of dormancy from inspiring English sources
Arabidopsis seeds with a small amount of dormancy will respond to KAR1 or KAR2, provided that there is no nitrate present, which causes seeds to germinate regardless of the karrikin.
The seeds of plants that grow in temperate latitudes require low temperatures or fluctuating temperature conditions that last for a certain amount of time to break dormancy (Hsieh et al. 2004).
During its dormancy, the amount of water needed by a reptile is less than at other times and is normally supplied by water produced from the metabolism of the animal's own stored food reserves, particularly fat.
During tuber dormancy, the amount of sugars increases at the expense of starch in response to storage at low temperatures (Isherwood 1973).
Still another mechanism used by some organisms to avoid stressful environmental conditions is that of dormancy, during which an organism conserves the amount of energy available to it and makes few demands on its environment.
Roughly 700 years of dormancy were broken in about 1480, when large amounts of pale gray dacite pumice and ash started to erupt, beginning the Kalama period.
They were like cicadas without the bonus years of dormancy.
This is "a benefit of dormancy," he says.
Massagué inferred that those few survivors must lie in a state of dormancy.
All those metabolisms, cross-conspiring, begin to slip out of dormancy about now.
