Sentence examples for leaves this hypothesis from inspiring English sources

These results lend credence to the hypothesis that natural hybrid zones may exist near the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea [28] or even further east along the North African coast, although inadequate sampling in that region currently leaves this hypothesis largely unaddressed.

The carotenoid content of whole leaves supported this hypothesis, since mutant plants acclimated to a lower Chl/Car ratio than wild-type plants after 6 d exposed to excess light at low temperature, suggesting that O2 signalling can account for the modulation of xanthophyll content in the thylakoid membrane.

However, the absence of random assignment and the fact that our study was not cast as a non-inferiority trial leaves this possibility more as a hypothesis, one in need of further testing.

The stabilization of the human standing posture was originally attributed to the stiffness of the ankle muscles but direct measurements of the ankle stiffness ruled out this hypothesis, leaving open the possibility for a feedback stabilization strategy driven by proprioceptive signals.

This hypothesis, however, leaves unresolved the issue of the origin of infection by displacing the problem to the former fly generation.

Reymond tackled the pedigrees at length, but left the hypothesis of amphioxus as ancestor unchallenged; the consensus was too strong and dissent not yet prominent enough.

However, more recent biochemical evidence questions this hypothesis, thereby leaving the molecular mechanisms underlying AIF-mediated mitochondrial deficiency unexplained.

Data presented here do not support this hypothesis and leave open the question of the physiological relevance of G9a ANK binding to methyl-H3K9.

In our study, gonadotrophin levels were only tested in men with total testosterone levels <12 mmol/l (2), leaving us unable to test this hypothesis.

In order to experimentally test this hypothesis, we infiltrated leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana with a buffer solution (APW) supplemented with 40 mM sucrose, a concentration routinely used in Arabidopsis thaliana tissue culture medium.

Inspection of polymorphisms among different populations may help to confirm this hypothesis and we leave it as a promising avenue for future work.