Sentence examples for phytologist from inspiring English sources
noun
One skilled in phytology; a writer on plants; a botanist.
Mill was an enthusiastic botanist all his life and a frequent contributor of notes and short papers to the Phytologist.
These plants' pollen, Dr Cocucci observes in a paper in the New Phytologist, is packaged into structures called pollinaria, which attach themselves intact to visiting insects and are thus carried to other flowers.
He and his colleagues propose their idea in the current issue of the journal New Phytologist.
They also act as a sort of immune system which protects acacias from infection.This discovery, reported in New Phytologist by Marcia Gonzalez-Teuber of La Serena University, in Chile, dates back to an observation made a decade ago that macaranga trees, which have similar symbiotic relations with ants, seem immune to a particular fungus when ants are present, but not when they aren't.
The only risk was on hairy plants such as ferns, which kept the droplets far enough away to act as lenses, they reported in New Phytologist.
