Sentence examples for defences in response from inspiring English sources

Activation of local and systemic plant defences in response to pathogen attack involves dramatic cellular reprogramming.

We analysed, using an ANCOVA approach, whether the ability to increase the concentration of chemical defences in response to weevil damage was altered by light deprivation.

The referendum asks whether Taiwan should boost its defences in response to China's missile build-up and whether the island should hold peace talks with the mainland.

The referendum will ask whether Taiwan should boost its missile defences in response to China's missile build-up on the coast facing the island, and whether Taiwan should enter peace talks with the mainland.

By evaluating chemical defences in the whole stem, and restricting C assimilation by complete light deprivation, we can infer that young pines were able to use other carbon sources than current photosynthates, likely stored carbon pools, for de novo synthesis of induced chemical defences in response to insect herbivory.

Although both animal and plant pattern recognition receptors have extracellular leucine-rich repeat domains and a single membrane spanning helix, they have different intracellular effector domains, which activate defences in response to the detection of a potential pathogen.

It was an act of self-defence, in response to 9/11.

It expressly recognised the US's right to individual self-defence in response to acts of terrorism.

The government in Ankara said the operation was an act of self-defence, in response to Isis shelling of Turkish border towns and suicide bombings and attacks targeting Turkish nationals.

In the analysed debates, irony is used as a defence in response to criticism and as an attack; in both cases it provides a resource for the participants to improve their own position against their opponents.

The Tigers rarely troubled Sale's defence in response.