Sentence examples for the leaf sheath from inspiring English sources

The leaf sheath is bright green fur.

The leaf sheath is usually open and lacks ligules (membranous or hairlike appendages of the leaf sheath).

The leaf sheath is not well differentiated except in Freycinetia, and petioles are absent.

The leaves at this stage are small and hence, during sampling the leaf part of the petiole or even the leaf sheath might have been included.

Structurally, this means that the point of leaf initiation alternates with each node; the leaf sheath grows to encircle the stem and overlap when the two points meet.

Some grass species have an odd, yet poorly studied pattern of leaves disarticulating regularly between the leaf sheath and the leaf lamina.

Examine stalks for the typical black anthracnose lesions on the stalks, and peel back the leaf sheath to look for the black fungal fruiting bodies, called acervuli (Fig. 2).

Tillers emerge regularly intravaginally (i.e. within the leaf sheath of an existing mother tiller), resulting in dense canopies with strong self-shading: eighty percent of green foliage experience less than 50% of the incident light.

Fertility of spikelets outside the leaf sheath was >92%, while those in the leaf sheath were about 65% fertile.

High temperature reduced spikelet fertility in all spikelets by >55% in those outside the leaf sheath and by >90% in those trapped in the leaf sheath.

(b) Gene expression of OsC1 in the leaf sheath of 4 cultivars at tillering.