Sentence examples for kill seedlings from inspiring English sources

— Jeff Gordinier The Economist: Here's the thing about decaffeinated coffee: It produces beaucoup caffeine as a waste product, a pollutant that can kill seedlings and germinating plants.

Because it can cause brown leaf spot and kill seedlings of mono- and dicotyledonous plants, TeA is regarded as a potential herbicidal agent.

Cultured cells of rice varieties have been reported to be much more resistant to salt concentrations that, if applied to whole plants, would kill seedlings (Flowers et al. 1985).

Despite B. prionotes occurrence in lower parts of the landscape, it does not occur in areas prone to flooding, because of its intolerance of heavy soils, and because extended periods of flooding kill seedlings.

Rhizoctonia solani causes the post-emergence disease wirestem, resulting in killed seedlings ("damping-off"), root rot or stunted growth and smaller heads.

S. scabies causes a common potato scab disease that makes potatoes unmarketable, C. michiganensis kills young plants and deforms fruits, especially tomatoes, and P. ultimum kills seedlings of eggplant, peppers, lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers.

Provide good air circulation in the room where you start the seeds to prevent dampening off, a soil fungal disease that kills seedlings.

But the fact that DC3000 expressing AvrB, that is expected to elicit an HR and kill the seedlings did not abrogate the luciferase activity in the seedlings and did not seem to reduce the bacterial load significantly (Table 1), is unexpected and highlights unique aspects of this system (discussed later).

Such meadows must be cut or burned each year to encourage new growth and to kill woody seedlings.

After they have germinated, too much water can eventually kill the seedlings.

Overall, this rate of clopyralid had the second highest duration of residual soil activity, continuing to kill 50% of seedlings for 175 DAT, with surviving seedlings reaching less than 50% of the control biomass until 245 DAT, though some seedlings were beginning to establish successfully after 100 days (Figure 2).