Sentence examples for flower formation from inspiring English sources

Cycles of red and far-red light also can affect flower formation.

Continuation of vegetative growth, rather than early flower formation, is desirable in such crops as spinach and lettuce.

Phytoplasma bacteria, she found, produce a protein called SAP54 that interferes with molecular switches, known as MADS-box transcription factors, which promote flower formation.

It doesn't need to be cut back to bloom, but since it does need to put on several feet of new growth to initiate flower formation, you can end up with quite the tangle if you don't take steps.

Flower formation occurred in long days but was delayed, with severe defects in floral organ development.

Second, the threshold for flower formation is lower than for the formation of bulbils.

The threshold for flower formation is lower (2.17 ± 0.05 mm bulb diameter) than the threshold for the formation of the basal bulbil (2.80 ± 0.16 mm).

For all hitherto investigated species from humid climates, thresholds for bulbil formation are lower than these for flower formation (Schnittler et al. 2013); the exception are the two species from arid climates, Gagea bulbifera and G. graeca (Table 2).

In addition, the threshold for flower formation (expressed as bulb size where 50% of the plants form the respective structure) is with 2.17 ± 0.05 mm lower than that for bulbils with 2.80 ± 0.16 mm.

We used a mutant approach to identify candidate genes implicated in double flower formation in roses.

Therefore, the restricted expression to whorl 4 in 'Malmaison' likely explains the double flower formation by homeotic conversion of stamens into petals.