Sentence examples for poor host for from inspiring English sources

Alternatively, VCP depletion may create a poor host for Salmonella replication in SCVs.

Wild-type tomato plants turned out to be a rather poor host for S. exigua with only 5 12% of the larvae surviving on the cultivars Castlemart and UC82B.

Most Anophelines are poor hosts for the Plasmodium parasites that cause the disease.

Two-needle Pinus species are poor hosts for the SM due to low larval survival and growth rate with a result that very few moths can complete their development in 2-needle pines (Kirichenko et al. [2009], [2011]).

American goldfinches make very poor hosts for brood parasites, with studies showing low hatching rates of brown-headed cowbird eggs and no fledging success.

Experimental infections in sheep [16], calves [17], pigs [18], and dogs [19] have shown these domestic species to be poor hosts for, or develop only mild clinical symptoms from WNV infection, thereby limiting their usefulness for genetic susceptibility/resistance studies.

It was, e.g. hypothesized that tree species that exude latex are poor hosts for orchids (Piers 1968).

Arguably, it seems rather farfetched to conceive e.g. 'boreal' forest trees as poor hosts for 'tropical' orchids.

These results reflect that melon is a poorer host for CMV multiplication and transmission than tomato.

Tobacco is a relatively poor host plant for both whitefly biotypes used in this study, especially for ZHJ1, although the suitability of this plant species differs in degree among cultivars [42], [44] (Tables 1 and 2).

Furthermore, the tobacco cultivar used in this study is a relatively poor host plant for both whitefly cryptic species [8].