The black bangs across her forehead are as sharp and severe as an obsidian blade, but her eyebrows are as downy and pale as a baby's.
We heard chickadees and saw juncos, but, depending on the season, birders can also spot black-and-white warblers, ruffed grouse and towhees, as well as downy woodpeckers and nuthatches.
The timing corresponds with the formation of spores in a funguslike pathogen that attacks the plant and results in a condition known as downy mildew disease.
Around nearly every part of the well-preserved three-foot-long skeleton are etched traces of what the scientists describe as downy tufts and featherlike filaments, even some imprints that resemble the herringbone pattern of modern bird feathers.
Which is why floaters are soft as downy pillows.
Several clusters of NBS genes mapped to chromosomal regions where genetic resistance to fungal diseases, such as downy and powdery mildew, were previously assigned (Figure 3B).
A segregating population comprising 2,141 F2 individuals was developed using (cms)HA342 as downy mildew susceptible parent and ARG1575-2 as resistance donor [ 4].
Plants can be affected by a broad range of plant-pathogenic oomycetes, such as downy mildews and Phytophthora species.
"Without my glasses, the world lost its roughness and became as soft and downy as the big pillow I used to lean my cheek against before going to sleep," writes Modiano, in William Rodarmor's translation.
I moved on to another exhibit case and the next culprits: those winsome little black and white woodpeckers known as the downy and the hairy.
Bring the thin robe, to fold about my breast, White as the downy swan; while round my waist Let leaves of glossy myrtle bind the vest, Not idly gay, but elegantly chaste!
