Sentence examples for reducing seed from inspiring English sources

The double-cross procedure has the advantage that the commercial F1 seed is produced on the highly productive single cross A × B rather than on a poor-yielding inbred, thus reducing seed costs.

In this paper, the effect of chemical dessication of oilseed rape with glyphosate applied 35 days after anthesis for reducing seed yield loss was studied.

Some species have a positive effect by burying seeds to shallow depths and thereby reducing seed predation and facilitating seed germination, while other species bury seeds too deep for successful seed germination and seedling development.

Similarly, fall prescribed fires were effective at reducing seed production, as well as numbers of seedlings and adults following fires, but had no long-term effect on population growth rates.

We expect that complete absence of RLSB would result in a complete absence of LSU production, severely reducing seed or seedling viability.

However, their reduced fitness in the highlands may stem from an inability to fix enough carbon in the cool temperatures before flowering, thereby reducing seed production.

Reduced seed coat thickness.

ZnO nanoparticles reduce seed germination [19] and damage tissues [20] in hydroponically grown plants.

All tested landraces and cultivars contain a defective allele of sh4 that reduces seed shattering.

The presence of metals (As, Cu, Pb and Zn) in sediments reduced seed germination by 80%.

Vertebrate exclusion cages (12 mm × 12 mm openings) strongly reduced seed predation rates.