Sentence examples for may become dormant from inspiring English sources
The straplike or platelike protonema (the structure that produces the sexual plant by budding) provides firm attachment to the rock substrate and may become dormant in unfavourable conditions.
Active cracks may become dormant as the near-surface residual stress gradient changes, due to self-equilibration, from highly tensile to a lower tensile state or to a compressive state.
During winter, Aloe vera may become dormant, during which little moisture is required.
It has to be remembered that identity based on language and race may become dormant at times but it does not simply disappear.
Following artemisinin exposure, a small subpopulation of asexual parasites may become "dormant" and thus temporarily refractory to treatment (48).
The disease may become dormant and the infected person may relapse after months, years or decades (the longest recorded incubation period documented is 62 years) [ 2].
Subsequent diversification within the seed plants was underpinned by the evolution of lateral (axillary) branching (Sussex and Kerk, 2001; Langdale and Harrison, 2008), in which buds initiate in leaf axils but may then become dormant until receiving environmental or internal cues to promote their activation and growth.
At points along this pathway, tumor cells may also die or become dormant.
It is noteworthy that with both species oospore vitality as measured by tetrazolium bromide staining was greater than that indicated by oospore germination, a result that mirrored those of Widmer ([2011]), who speculated that for Phytophthora kernoviae, oospores become dormant at 30°C, but may remain viable and be possibly able to germinate when dormancy is broken.
Alternatively, the lower metabolic activities of the ring stages may be a prerequisite of the ability of the resistant parasite to become dormant under the artemisinin pressure as demonstrated by several in vitro analyses [ 17, 18].
In desert biomes, on the other hand, the summer months, which may be periods of reduced food availability, intense heat, or extreme aridity, stimulate some desert organisms to become dormant.
