Sentence examples for root feeding from inspiring English sources

Different turnip moths may arrive to the root feeding zone near the soil surface at varying times during the growing season.

It was only marginally higher (non-significant) in root feeding weevils and millipede detritivores, possibly due to low sample sizes.

Millipede detritivores had higher δN values than root feeding weevils on all sites but only on the Clatse above the falls was this trend significant.

Although juvenile stages may feed ectoparasitically on root hairs, once the nematode has penetrated the root, feeding is restricted almost entirely to the root cortex [ 40].

Based on the results obtained by Crespo et al. (2012) we postulated that artificial damage only induces m/z 60 emissions provided sinigrin is present in the roots but that root feeding by root fly larvae also enhances methanethiol and sulfide emissions independently of the plant's glucosinolate profile.

The insects induce a feeding site within the meristematic zone of the root tip, where they stay attached to the root, feeding both inter- and intracellularly (Hofmann 1957) and inducing changes in the uptake and transportation of water, minerals and assimilates (Porten and Huber 2003).

Old World tradition sits snugly in my Italian-American family, like a plant in its pot, the tightly contained roots feeding on the soil (and toil) of generations.

Claire and I agreed that we feel the same way about poetry that we are only roots feeding a fruit (language), and we have no idea when or even if the fruit will grow.

As a migratory endoparasite, P. neglectus moves in and out of roots, feeding as it moves through the root cortex.

Of course there are cultural reasons for wanting and adoring local food; your cuisine is part of your roots, even if your roots feed many trees, as they do here.

He was finished with his "Frieze of Life" cycle, which now included the important (to him) "Metabolism" (1899), an earthy Adam and Eve-like depiction that shows a nude couple divided by a barren tree whose roots feed off a corpse.