Sentence examples for surfaces of a leaf from inspiring English sources

Some of the small buprestids are leaf miners; that is, they feed on leaf cells between the upper and lower surfaces of a leaf.

He studied the mangled surface of a leaf I was molding.

Some genera (Leptothorax) eat the honeydew that has fallen onto the surface of a leaf.

Chemicals on the surface of another insect or on the surface of a leaf are not in solution and are probably conveyed from the insect or leaf surface by carrier proteins in the material covering the nerve endings at the pore.

Because most water loss occurs by diffusion and the rate of diffusion is determined by the gradient across the diffusion barrier such as the surface of a leaf or skin, the rate of water loss will depend on the relative humidity of the air.

In caterpillars such as Drepana arcuata, seen in this video, a hair-like structure at the end of the abdomen has evolved into an "anal oar" that the insect scrapes along the surface of a leaf to warn off an intruder.

Because of their sensitivity to light, and high vapor pressures that causes them to rapidly disappear when applied to the surface of a leaf, chemically unmodified strobilurins are not generally useful as fungicides for agricultural use.

Since the surface of a leaf lacks most nutrients, completion of the pre-penetration development depends primarily on the spore's endogenous resources and involves degradation and recycling of stored lipids, carbohydrates, and nitrogen sources [ 8].

A mycelial agar plug 3 mm in diameter was cut from the growing margins of a 6-day-old F. verticillioides culture and applied to the adaxial surface of a leaf detached from 6-week-old in vitro plants (n = 12 per line; repeated twice).

Among meristems of limited existence is the marginal, or plate, meristem responsible for the increase in surface area of a leaf; it contributes new cells mainly in one plane.

In each replicate on a given type of plants, one female and one male adults were placed on the lower surface of a plant leaf (third to fifth leaf from the top) enclosed in a clip-cage.