Sentence examples for main shoots from inspiring English sources

Inflorescence: flowers 1 per axil on main shoots and on short axillary shoots, +- sessile; +- glandular.

Main shoots should be pinched when plants are 2 ft. tall to encourage formation of branch shoots and more flowers.

The antheridia and archegonia may be borne at the tips (apices) of the main shoots or on special lateral branchlets.

Flowering time was recorded as days from seedling emergence to stigma emergence for 75% of the main shoots in a plot.

Tim Martinson, 56, a grape and wine expert at Cornell University, suggests trimming the new vine to one trunk and three main shoots.

In each experiment, yield components (panicle number, grain number, 100 grain mass) were measured separately for main shoots, basal tillers, and nodal tillers.

Select four or five main shoots and tie them to the canes.

(Markhart 1985) for lateral branches or a heavy-duty garlic press for young main shoots.

It is likely that most of these shoots were main shoots, but as the main shoots were not tagged, it is possible that some of them were first primary tillers (Zadoks et al., 1974).

The tops of young developing main shoots (Fig.  2D) were sampled at sites of varying groundwater salinity.

Lateral branches were used for chlorophyll fluorescence measurements and main shoots were selected for estimating stomatal conductance.