Sentence examples for poor vigor from inspiring English sources

The stem density was dominated by young, thrifty-mature trees of good or moderate vigor but basal area and crown area was dominated by mature or over-mature trees with moderate or poor vigor.

This is obvious because seedlings can be scored with low SES only if they have attained higher shoot length and high vigor, which means long root length, although higher SES scores could be given to plants with poor vigor and growth.

The F1 seeds developed from the interspecific crosses mostly show low germination and poor vigor that is attributed to possible crossing barriers.

However, it is impossible with the RH approach in plants to go beyond a certain level of radiation as the increase in dosage leads to decrease in seed germination, plant survival, fertility and poor vigor [ 14, 18, 24].

In rice (Oryza sativa L ., transgenic plants that express an antisense OsARF1 show extremely low growth, poor vigor, curled leaves, and sterility, suggesting that this gene is essential for vegetative and reproductive development [ 20].

The laboratory strain, Y294, which exhibited poor fermentation vigor, was not included in this assessment.

One major problem with chromosome engineering in a tetraploid background is poor plant vigor and low fertility of interspecific crosses.

Most of the other studies reviewed were assessed as having high or unclear risk of bias, often with poor methodological vigor, so it is not possible to draw any conclusions from those studies.

By contrast, the other benchmark yeasts generally exhibited a low capability to withstand higher temperatures and osmotic stress, as they consumed only up to 50 g/l glucose, with the laboratory strain, Y294, showing the poorest fermenting vigor.

The seedlings in all treatments were subjected to rapidly increasing competition by the remarkably proliferating weed vegetation, resulting in poor growth and vigor, and high mortality rate in direct seeding but much less so in planting.

In the case of the diploid population, the loss of vigor and poor seed set were much more common.