Sentence examples for sunflower plants from inspiring English sources

Shrunken sunflower plants, normally valuable for seeds and oil, are being used as a makeshift feed for livestock.

de la Haba, P., Agüera, E. & Maldonado, J. Differential effects of ammonium and tungsten on nitrate and nitrite uptake and reduction by sunflower plants.

In between two species of mycorrhiza in sunflower plants, Glumus etanicatum had the highest effect on grain yield and these elements in seeds and increased both.

The presence of BM improved the seed oil concentration, O, and L levels, especially when the sunflower plants were subjected to water shortage conditions.

The results showed that the grain yield of sunflowers improved when sunflower plants were grown with a combination of N fertilizer and BM.

The potential for increasing latex production in sunflower appears possible, given that current NR levels are low and reasonable advances in NR production in sunflower plants through plant breeding and genetic engineering might be achieved.

Sunflower, plant of the genus Helianthus of the family Asteraceae, native primarily to North and South America.

The sunflower plant is valuable from an economic as well as from an ornamental point of view.

In addition, the sunflower planted after the maize scavenged more N in treatments previously treated with ENTEC® than with traditional fertilizers, increasing NUE in the cropping systems.

Dr. Ilya Raskin, a professor of plant biology at Rutgers, who is widely credited with coining the term phytoremediation 12 years ago, said the lengths of the maze of roots and tiny root hairs of a single sunflower plant could total many miles.

The combined application of 100 kg K and 45 kg P ha−1 significantly increased yield components, grain yield, harvest index, and shelling percentage of sunflower, suggesting that 100 kg K ha−1 in combination with 45 kg P ha−1 could maximize productivity of sunflower planted after wheat on the K and P deficient soils in the study area.