Sentence examples for secondary shoot from inspiring English sources

The shoot had a series of bracts (or modified leaves), and each bract also held a secondary shoot within a smaller axil.

Primary and secondary shoot characteristics showed minor differences between row orientations and canopy sides.

Plants achieve remarkable plasticity in shoot system architecture by regulating the activity of secondary shoot meristems, laid down in the axil of each leaf.

This implied that the placenta was a distinct floral organ equivalent to a secondary shoot independent of the carpel and was recruited onto the ovary wall later in angiosperms (Angenent et al. 1995; Roe et al. 1997; Skinner et al. 2004).

Interestingly, the wus mutant initiates ectopic secondary shoot meristems across the flattened apex, resulting in the formation of a bushy plant with a number of shoots and leaves.

During post-embryonic growth of the shoot, secondary shoot meristems can generate new growth axes.

These appear to result from the excessive stimulation and development of secondary shoots.

For maximum size and perfection of form, you must limit the number of main stems, remove secondary shoots and pinch out all buds but the one at the end of the stem, which, of course, must be staked.

Many species lack both stems and leaves; photosynthesis takes place instead in a highly modified, ribbonlike thallus (vegetative plant body) upon which flowering and leaf-bearing secondary shoots sometimes develop.

Severely damaged stands were mainly composed of secondary shoots, whereas primary and insect infested shoots dominated in less damaged stands.

Rooting of green, healthy regenerated shoots on half-strength MS also promoted development of multiple (2 3) secondary shoots (Figure 1H).