Sentence examples for saline environments from inspiring English sources

We detect natural selection on a suite of phenological and morphological traits in the greenhouse in non-saline environments, traits associated with faster vegetative growth rates are favored by selection, while in saline environments traits associated with salinity tolerance (e.g., increased leaf water content) and earlier germination and flowering are favored (Table  2).

Halophiles, including the genus Halobacterium, live in extremely saline environments such as salt lakes and outnumber their bacterial counterparts at salinities greater than 20 25%.

This process consumes energy and can usurp a large portion of the energy budget of animals in very saline environments.

Plumbaginaceae (leadwort family) is common throughout the world, but most members thrive along seashores and in other saline environments.

Chenopod scrublands are dominated by shrubs in the family Chenopodiaceae; these bushes also are called saltbushes because they typically grow in dry, saline environments and sometimes store salt in their leaves, which have a characteristically salty taste.

In highly saline environments, the ratio of dissolved magnesium ions to dissolved calcium ions progressively increases above the norm for seawater (5:1) as a result of the selective formation of calcium-rich evaporite minerals like gypsum and anhydrite.

A total of 34 different QTLs were identified in three diverse saline environments (Table 2).

Rice cultivars grown in saline environments are most sensitive at both the vegetative and reproductive stages.

Indeed, strongly saline environments are inhabited by specific halophilic species (Oren 2005).

Corrosion test is used to check the chemical adhesion and corrosion resistance of coating in saline environments (the corrosion resistance in saline environments is proportional with the metal's bio compatibility) [4, 9].

Our study demonstrates that these saline environments are habitats of halophilic and halotolerant bacteria that have previously unreported cytotoxic activity.