Sentence examples for greater leaf area from inspiring English sources

The greater leaf area and leaf size dimensions resulted from the higher transpiration rate recorded for this stock type.

Plants growing in leaf compost, perlite and silt had greater leaf area and had large tuber size.

The greater leaf area means more chlorophyll contents, it enabled plants to produce more photosynthate which ultimately resulted in larger tuber size due to more food storage (Riaz et al. 2015).

Although plants grown with ample fertilizer had a greater leaf area index (LAI) than those grown with less nitrogen, the increase in leaf area occurred in the lower and intermediate MAclasses, while the leaf area in the two highest MAclasses was similar.

All PdGAUT12.1-KD lines examined had 52 to 117% significantly greater leaf area compared to control plants (Additional file 2E).

In the field, ramets were 6 10%% taller, and had a 36 38 % greater leaf area per ramet (Table 1).

As the OE lines had both more branches (and thus greater leaf areas) and higher photosynthetic rates per unit leaf area, each of the OE plants was able to fix more CO2 than plants of other lines.

For example, comparisons of the aggressiveness of different isolates of Mycosphaerella graminicola collected early and late in epidemics on susceptible and partially resistant (minor resistance genes only) wheat cultivars demonstrated that partial resistance selected for more aggressive isolates leading to greater leaf areas infected than did susceptible host lines (Cowger and Mundt 2002).

"They have great leaf area and they are very tolerant of urban conditions".

I60 plants showed the greatest leaf area and canopy dry weight, and the highest root length, dry weight, volume and number of forks.

The Santiago and Wright (2007) finding could be explained by the greater hydraulic limitation in lianas in which the narrow stems, even if highly conductive on a cross-sectional area basis, had to support a disproportionally large leaf area.