Sentence examples for head of wheat from inspiring English sources
The film's striking images – an isolated gothic mansard-roofed mansion standing alone on the prairie, the dark silhouette of a scarecrow in the field, an enlarged shoot of grain coming up through the soil, a grasshopper chomping a head of wheat, a wine glass under water following a furtive tryst – are charged with emotion and meaning, never there just for effect.
Our ground, rooting us to every stalk of corn, every head of wheat sown by sweat and hands, hands gleaning coal or planting windmills in deserts and hilltops that keep us warm, hands digging trenches, routing pipes and cables, hands as worn as my father's cutting sugarcane so my brother and I could have books and shoes.
The pygmy field mouse preferred (100%) the seed head of wheat, also the wood mouse (87%) and common vole (60%) showed low preference for wheat.
Worried about losing their crops and starving, they picked the early green heads of wheat.
Other graphic artists were more explicit: Sigmunds Vidbergs drew a female nude reclining on geometric forms, while Ferdynand Ruszczyc used the negative space between two heads of wheat to convey an image of agrarian fertility.
The U.K. Soil Association, for example, wants a ban on pre-harvest spraying of wheat fields, a practice that kills green heads of wheat and allows an earlier harvest, but also leaves residues of glyphosate in the grain.
They sent three of the most promising to plant pathologist Gary Bergstrom of Cornell University and his colleagues, who sprayed the organisms on the heads of wheat plants that were then exposed to the fungus in greenhouse tests.
Resistance to systemic spread has been distinguished as an important resistance component also in other vascular pathosystems, such as Fusarium head blight of wheat [ 53].
Brachypodium has been used as a nonhost to study plant diseases caused by a variety of plant pathogens including cereal rusts, Fusarium head blight of wheat, rice blast, powdery mildew and Barley stripe mosaic virus (BSMV) [ 24, 32- 36].
Sequencing of Fusarium graminearum, causal agent of Fusarium head blight of wheat and barley, coupled with expression profiling experiments revealed a set of 408 genes expressed exclusively during infection of barley that, based on single nucleotide polymorphism frequency were more divergent than other genes in the genome (17).
An InDel polymorphism in the 50 bp upstream region of the Ppd-1 gene was also associated with heading time of wheat cultivars [ 25].
