Sentence examples for complete desiccation from inspiring English sources

Urmia Lake, once the second largest saline lake in the world, is on the verge of complete desiccation.

The late Miocene was characterized by high global temperatures and partly to nearly complete desiccation of the Mediterranean Sea throughout the latter part of the Messinian age (the Messinian salinity crisis).

We report that the resulting levels of intracellular trehalose (∼80 mM) are able to confer increased resistance to the partial dehydration resulting from hypertonic stress, but do not enable survival of complete desiccation due to air drying.

Anhydrobiotic chironomid larvae can withstand prolonged complete desiccation as well as other external stresses including ionizing radiation.

LT has experienced fluctuations in lake level [19], but unlike LM and LV, is not thought to have experienced near or complete desiccation.

These cells in fat body of the larvae have been shown earlier to be capable of surviving complete desiccation even if dissected from the larvae, which makes this cell type a convenient model for studies of anhydrobiosis [37], [38].

Organisms found in BSCs have developed a suite of adaptive mechanisms that permit the avoidance of water loss and/or the survival of complete dehydration (i.e. desiccation) [ 10, 11].

The sample was transferred into a cellulose extraction thimble and stored in a desiccator for 12 hr to complete the desiccation process, then inserted into a Soxhlet apparatus and extracted for 8 hr (seven cycles per hour) with 340 mL solvent mixture n-hexane:dichlormethane (1 1, vol/vol).

Since the length of the growing season is limited by the amount of moisture in the soil, selfers have a much narrower window of time to complete their life cycle before desiccation.

For example, in Solanum phureja, embryo maturation, excluding desiccation, is only completed 27 days after pollination [ 11].

Humidity control is particularly important to prevent death of the stem from desiccation before rooting is complete.