Sentence examples for drought stage from inspiring English sources
The good news: As of Dec. 27, only 32 percent of the state is still in the worst drought stage, down from 88 percent in early October.
In Sacramento County, the Carmichael Water District had banned filling new swimming pools but later moved the restriction to a more severe drought stage after officials realized that the district's customers had already reduced their overall water use by 20%.
Genes found to be induced in response to drought stress in our dataset (>2.5-fold) were predominantly down-regulated when differentially expressed in the hsi2 mutant (vs. Col-0) at stage 2 (>92%), while genes repressed by drought were mostly up-regulated (93%) when differentially expressed in the hsi2 mutant at this drought stage (Additional file 3).
A watch is the least restrictive of three possible drought stages.
They argued that if the "going gets tough", the District would declare higher drought severity stages and then they would have to implement the rationing measures foreseen in the regional drought plan.
With the objective of improving the grain yield (GY) of the Malaysian high quality rice cultivar MRQ74 under reproductive stage drought stress (RS), three drought yield QTLs, viz.
In opposition to this, accessions such as Meleke were highly tolerant (SES 2) at late vegetative stage drought while the same accession was sensitive (SES 7) after early vegetative stage drought.
Furthermore, several selected drought-related genes have been tested in the same cultivars exposed to drought at tillering stage to confirm the constitutive nature of the different stress response strategy detected at booting stage.
More interestingly, some rice accessions such as Kolpi 248 (IRGC 3725) or Early 3 (IRGC 38708) were found to be highly tolerant (SES 1) in early vegetative stage drought screening while the same accessions were highly sensitive (SES 9) after late vegetative stage drought exposure (Fig. 8b-c).
reproductive stage drought stress.
In the first stage, drought conditions were simulated by decreasing the soil water content to 30 40 % of field capacity.
