Sentence examples for increased leaf area from inspiring English sources
In conditions with ample K+ both MegaFol and GroZyme (Valagro, Atessa, Chieti, ITALY) increased leaf area and number of leaves greater than controls treated with water or K+.
Khan (2003) also observed that the leaf application of LCOs in maize stimulated photosynthesis, increased leaf area and shoot dry weight.
In addition, Nl rather than the other two N treatments increased leaf area ratio (LAR), leaf/fine root mass ratio (L/FR), R/S and RWC under severe drought stress (20% FC), even though these parameters could increase with the Nh treatment under well-watered condition (80% FC).
Cyanobacterial inoculation positively affected pigment content, increased plant shoot and root dry weight, and increased leaf area [ 40].
Increased leaf area of the ZmZAR1 overexpressing lines was primarily due to an increase in cell proliferation rather than cell expansion.
This is also in line with the finding that earthworms increased leaf area consumed by slugs only at low diversity because especially the biomass production of the grass species was stimulated by earthworms [ 12, 22].
The vermicompost applications increased the growth and yields of peppers significantly; including increased leaf areas, plant shoot biomass, marketable fruit weights and decreased yields of non-marketable fruit.
However, the increased susceptibility of maize bm mutants to U. maydis and the increased leaf areas displaying disease symptoms, provide strong evidence for a role of lignification in disease resistance.
We estimated mapped transpiration (Tr) at a point scale (1 m2) and showed that Tr increased linearly with increasing leaf area index (LAI).
It has been observed that NDVI increases near-linearly with increasing leaf area index and then enters an asymptotic phase in which NDVI increases very slowly with increasing leaf area index (Roderick et al. 1996; Wessels et al. 2004; Jiang et al. 2006).
The SDLA above or under ear significantly increased with improving genotypes, mainly due to new hybrids allowing the use of more individuals per area and thus increasing leaf area index (LAI).
