Sentence examples for hardiness in from inspiring English sources

Breeders are producing what sells -- speed -- and sacrificing hardiness in the bargain.

Dr. Ahrens explained that they founded the arboretum after they discovered the lack of scientific understanding of winter hardiness in trees.

Just named ivy of the year for 2004 by the American Ivy Society, Duck Foot has been tested for hardiness in areas as cold as Zone 5, where temperatures drop to 20 below.

In New York City, street trees are selected only for their hardiness in winter; their resistance to disease, insects and drought; their ability to withstand smog; and their size, shape and color.

Thirteen years in the Clark County School District in Nevada has bred a hardiness in my soul comparable to that of a crusty mountain hermit in the Gabby Hayes mode.

I first noticed its ubiquity in the winter of 2009, when the poster appeared in dozens of windows in affluent London districts such as Blackheath during the prolonged snowy period and the attendant breakdown of National Rail; the implied message about hardiness in the face of adversity and the blitz spirit looked rather absurd in the context of a dusting of snow crippling the railway system.

In addition, the phenomenon of cold-hardiness in temperate populations [15], which might increase the ability of Ae. albopictus eggs to survive in areas with low winter temperatures, should be investigated.

However, elevated production of glycerol is thought to increase the cold-hardiness in a variety of organisms [34] [40] and glycerol levels were shown to be host- and temperature-dependent in Nasonia [41].

Other studies have identified positive selection of some genes involved in stress response (e.g. cold-hardiness in conifers [ 5]; drought stress in wild tomatoes [ 7]).

Thus, high-altitude populations have been found to undergo growth cessation and subsequent cold acclimation at an earlier timing in autumn than those from lower altitudes (Kurahashi and Hamaya 1981; W. Ishizuka and S. Goto unpublished data) and exhibited greater cold-hardiness in winter (Eiga and Sakai 1984).

Hoya plants are hardy in USDA Hardiness Zones 9 to 11 where they can be grown successfully outdoors but they are usually grown as houseplants.