Sentence examples for constitutive traits from inspiring English sources

Our results demonstrate that constitutive traits, i.e. numbers of flowers and tertiary branches, and adaptive traits, i.e. high number of seeds under salt stress, are both critical aspects of salinity tolerance in chickpea.

In such cases, what is usually called "drought tolerance" could be, in part, the consequence of plant constitutive traits that affect how soil water is used earlier in the growing season when water is non-limiting to plant transpiration [66].

The constitutive traits providing high early vigour were those showing the greatest relative reduction under drought (eg. tiller number reduction for Cluster 1 in Table 3; Table 6, Figure 3).

Evolved pesticide tolerance can be achieved through selection for existing constitutive traits or by the evolution of constitutive traits from initially plastic traits (i.e. genetic assimilation).

Contrary to constitutive traits, inducible defenses require recognition of the attacking aphid and subsequent transcriptional reprogramming.

Although the evolution of constitutive trait expression can be achieved through selection for existing constitutive traits and selection on plastic traits (i.e. genetic assimilation), the role of genetic assimilation has largely been ignored.

Brooks et al. (1977a, b) conducted a survey of herbarium specimens from the entire range of this species, encompassing Sri Lanka, the Malay Archipelago, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Queensland, Australia, and found that Ni hyperaccumulation is a constitutive trait in this species when growing on ultramafic soil.

For instance, both selection on existing constitutive trait and the loss of plasticity through genetic assimilation can result in the same evolutionary end point of constitutive trait expression.

Of note is the observation that this seems to be a constitutive trait of cells with stem-cell properties in human adult epithelium and not acquired during progression to malignancy.

Freezing tolerance in plants is thus not a constitutive trait and is expressed following exposure to low non-freezing temperatures, a process known as cold acclimation (Guy, 1990; Thomashow, 1999).

All accessions of B. humidicola developed aerenchyma in nodal roots even under well-drained soil, suggesting that this is a constitutive trait in this species (Figs 2 and 3, Table 3).