Sentence examples for clonal from inspiring English sources
adjective
Being created by asexual reproduction
She has found that one known in California as "Petite Sirah"—does not, in actual fact, exist.Microsatellite analysis shows that vines described as Petite Sirah by their estates are really from a number of different clonal varieties: Pelousin and Durif (both French grapes), and a third that is at present unidentified.
In the apple, a great many clonal rootstocks are available to give a complete range of dwarfing; rootstocks are also available to invigorate growth of the scion cultivar.
The process, called clonal selection, is one of the fundamental concepts of immunology.
Two types of cells are produced by clonal selection effector cells and memory cells.
Small bisexual flowers are borne on a sparse flower spike, and some species produce clonal plantlets that readily root to produce new plants.
The rootstock may be grown from seed (seedling rootstock) or asexually propagated (clonal rootstock).
Many species are able to reproduce vegetatively and generate clonal rosettes at the base of the main stem or nearby via underground rhizomes; some species produce bulbils (bulblike structures that can form new plants) on the inflorescence.
Therapeutic applications of embryo cloning -- still a distant promise -- cannot be developed without first overcoming significant research hurdles with embryo stem cells derived from non-clonal embryos.
In 1998, aware of the demand for yuzu trees and fruit, the director of the state's Citrus Clonal Protection Program, which maintains clean sources of budwood for growers, released certified budwood to nurseries.
The California Citrus Clonal Protection Program plans to release certified finger lime budwood in September, so in a few years the first fresh fruits should be offered domestically.
The Agriculture Department's National Clonal Germplasm Repository in Winters, west of Sacramento, has a collection of 60 types of pomegranates, with red, yellow, orange and greenish skins.
