Sentence examples for receptive surface from inspiring English sources

In flowering plants, however, the ovules are contained within a hollow organ called the pistil, and the pollen is deposited on the pistil's receptive surface, the stigma.

Opening of the floret makes possible exsertion of the anthers (pollen sacs) on their filaments and stigmas (the receptive surface for pollen) for exchange of pollen between individuals (cross-pollination).

During pollination, pollen is transferred from its source to a receptive surface: in gymnosperms from the microsporangium to the integument or, especially, the pollination droplet of the ovule (rarely to the cone scale); in angiosperms from the microsporangium (pollen sac) of the anther to the stigma of the carpel.

Smart fabrics bring a potential for live and digital gestures to communicate in the moment of performance via a player's costume as a receptive surface.

ornatum", usually included in the genus Buesiella, are distinguished from the above species by their digitate projections near the receptive surface and a hastate lip.

This reduction is related to the receptive surface available for pollen tube growth.

Once exposed to receptive surfaces, chemical intermediaries directly interact with membrane proteins, which govern the activity of receptor cells.

Designers of the rebuilt cities have taken to smooth, highly receptive surfaces such as plastic, terrazzo, high-finish concrete and mosaic – and the secret bards have taken to felt-tipped pens – which are more indelible than chalk, pencil, or crayon.

We perform a 'mass budget' of pollen by accounting for the number of pollen grains from release in the source population, dispersal from the source to the sink population by the wind, and deposition on receptive surfaces in the sink population.

There are skins, receptive surfaces, gestural movements".

The spatial resolution of sensory systems is not homogeneous across their receptive surfaces.