Sentence examples for diminished seed from inspiring English sources
Apart from the intrinsic biological importance of these results, consequences of diminished seed quality when plants are grown in the absence of gravity will detract from the utility of plant-based life support systems.
Many mutants with a functional loss of β-oxidation that thereby diminishes seed germination or seedling growth have been studied.
Vertebrate exclusion (wire mesh cages) had no significant effect on seed removal, although cages tended to diminish seed removal in non-AG territories.
Out-breeding depressed plants and inter-specific hybrids have diminished biomass and seed production (Jauhar 1993; Ellstrand and Schierenbeck 2000).
Seed shattering is costly to farmers, as crop yield is diminished, and lost seeds may lead to persistence of crop volunteers in cultivated fields [ 5, 6].
Our results were consistent with this pattern, with larger seeds producing larger seedlings for both invaded and uninvaded sources at 10 days, while initial seed weight was not significantly related to B. tectorum tolerance, B. tectorum suppression, or any 50- or 100-day growth traits, indicating that the importance of seed weight diminished over time.
In addition, the war has greatly diminished the availability of seeds for Syrian farmers.
From pilot studies we performed and reports by Naito and colleagues [ 19], we knew that silique length and seed set of the plants fertilized with irradiated pollen as well as germination of both the M2 seeds and the BC1 seeds were substantially diminished with increasing irradiation strength.
Seed chlorophyll content diminished during maturation following a different logistic trend for the pappus and the pericarp.
On these selected habitats, seedling density diminished with increasing distance from the seed source.
It is time to separate the political arguments from the science so we can embrace the benefits of this next generation farming – cheaper seeds, diminishing need for pesticides and higher yield crops. *Icelandic for dictionary.
