Sentence examples for scarce plants from inspiring English sources
BALTIMORE--When resources are scarce, plants dole out precious sugars to the cells that need them most.
When water and nutrients are scarce, plants compete and "organise" themselves sufficiently far from other plants in an arrangement that best conserves resources.
Scarce plants found at the warren include knotted pearlwort (Sagina nodosa), and slender bedstraw (Galium pumilum).
Ducks and geese winter along this coast in considerable numbers, and several nature reserves provide suitable conditions for water voles, natterjack toads and a number of scarce plants and invertebrates.
The locally rare wood carpet moth was found at Pawston Lake in 1929, and a number of nationally or locally scarce plants are also present, including the autumnal water starwort, blunt leaved pondweed, gypsywort, maiden pink and shoreweed.
Clearly, ODT-PAT assumptions (when plants are stressed, they invest in growth rather than defense) may seem incongruent with GDB-RAT assumptions (when resources are scarce, plants invest in defense rather than growth).
Scarce plant growth regulatory activity (wheat coleoptile and cucumber cotyledon tests) was observed, a little less so with ketones.
Almost three-quarters of temporary ponds supported at least one nationally scarce macroinvertebrate and 8% supported at least one nationally scarce plant across a wide range of physico-chemical characteristics.
"This area has nationally important eelgrass beds and the best inter-tidal mudflats for feeding wildfowl and waders in the Clyde, as well as supporting other wildlife including otters, the nationally scarce plant seaside centaury and a rare type of cuckoo bee".
While mutation rate data are scarce in plants, it seems likely that mutators could also carry a high and immediate indirect cost in plant species with a prominent gametophyte phase (mosses, ferns, and others).
Agriculture enjoys neither the profitability nor the investor interest of medicine, so the resources brought to bear on the Human Genome Project are scarce in plant genetics.
